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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?
(a) Administrators and Nie Yuanzi.
(b) Students and teachers.
(c) New Beida and Jinggang Mountain.
(d) Jinggang Mountain and Nie Yuanzi.

2. How did night meetings at the commune in Zhaitang attempt to educate the peasants?
(a) By purchasing textbooks for them.
(b) By teaching them basic literacy.
(c) By turning on radio news broadcasts for them.
(d) By reading newspapers to them.

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

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

5. How many people was Yue Daiyun required to identify as rightists?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?

2. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?

3. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?

4. What should a good Communist always refuse to a class enemy, according to what Yue Daiyun was taught?

5. Why were the students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou not enthused about their prospects there?

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