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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?
(a) A meeting at which her husband was to be criticized.
(b) A meeting at which she was to be criticized.
(c) A meeting at which she was to be honored.
(d) A meeting at which her husband was to be honored.

2. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?
(a) Facing criticism as a rightist.
(b) Realizing that the famine in 1959 was manmade.
(c) Criticism of Lao Tang's friendship with her.
(d) Being forced to criticize others.

3. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?
(a) It encouraged immorality.
(b) It encouraged disrespect.
(c) It encouraged blind acquiescence.
(d) It encouraged individual creativity over self-effacement.

4. What is an "ayi?"
(a) A domestic helper.
(b) A Communist party leader.
(c) A grandmother.
(d) An aunt.

5. Where were the Chinese literature students sent to work?
(a) In libraries.
(b) On farms.
(c) On dam sites.
(d) In coal mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did night meetings at the commune in Zhaitang attempt to educate the peasants?

2. Why was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?

3. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?

4. What was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?

5. What is a kang?

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