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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?
(a) Singing.
(b) Sketching.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Calisthenics.

2. What was Yue Daiyun's job during the famine in Zhaitang?
(a) Pitting walnuts.
(b) Collecting apricot pits for oil.
(c) Caring for pigs.
(d) Grinding corncobs to make flour.

3. Why did Yue Daiyun relate to her sister-in-law's father?
(a) They were from the same home town.
(b) They were both appalled at the elaborate wedding ceremony.
(c) They were the same age.
(d) They were both condemned as rightists.

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

5. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?
(a) Mutual agreement.
(b) Major contenders had been imprisoned.
(c) Urgent directives to promote "big alliances."
(d) Most of the student body had gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Nie Yuanzi attempt to flush out the 250 besieged Jinggang Mountain students?

2. What did the students use for hats on the academicians they publicly paraded?

3. What did Tang Dan want to do for the Jinggang Mountain students?

4. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?

5. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?

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