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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun draw a line between herself and her husband's family?
(a) They were unkind to her.
(b) They were outspoken anti-Communists.
(c) They were bourgeois intellectuals.
(d) They were unlearned peasants.

2. What does it mean to "draw a line"?
(a) To strengthen a common bond.
(b) To make one's political position clear.
(c) To separate one's self from a suspect person.
(d) To align one's self with another person.

3. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Undermining Chairman Mao.
(b) Capitalist ideas.
(c) Personal ambition.
(d) Disrespect of Communist authority.

4. Who were alleged to be Black Gang members?
(a) Anyone acquainted with Nie Yuanzi.
(b) Anyone connected with Lu Ping.
(c) Anyone putting up incendiary posters.
(d) Anyone connected to Lao Tang.

5. What did the revolutionary students say the literature department had done to corrupt student morality?
(a) Encouraged suicide.
(b) Taught bourgeois ideologies.
(c) Allowed the reading of "yellow novels."
(d) Advocated illicit sexual relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?

2. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?

3. What term was given to those whose parents were landlords?

4. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?

5. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?

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