View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yue Daiyun believe the generation she was teaching had that hers lacked?
(a) Compassion for other students.
(b) Interest in public affairs.
(c) Intelligence to understand the forces at work in society.
(d) Courage to fight for their convictions.

2. What challenging assignment was Yue Daiyun given upon her return to teaching?
(a) Developing a political writing course.
(b) Explicating Tang dynasty literature.
(c) Teaching Chinese to foreign students.
(d) Teaching modern literature.

3. What song did Yue Daiyun's brother use to comfort her while she was being criticized?
(a) "La Donna est Mobile."
(b) "La Marseille."
(c) "My Old Kentucky Home."
(d) "I Dream of Jeannie."

4. How many people in Beida had been declared rightists in 1958?
(a) Five hundred students and 100 faculty members.
(b) Seven hundred students.
(c) Three hundred faculty members.
(d) One hundred students and 500 faculty members.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were the Chinese literature students sent to work?

3. What two groups did Yue Daiyun believe would restore order to China in 1968?

4. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?

5. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 285 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample