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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chinese legend, why does a baby smile for the first time?
(a) To greet its parents.
(b) To celebrate its first month on earth.
(c) To thank the gods for its life.
(d) To bid farewell to the goddess guarding it.

3. What was "Contemporary Heroes"?
(a) A literary magazine.
(b) A blog.
(c) An underground newspaper.
(d) A foreign novel.

4. What were the "triple evils" to be eliminated in 1957?
(a) Sectarianism, bureaucratism, and socialism.
(b) Objectivism, Confucianism, and sectarianism.
(c) Subjectivism, sectarianism, and bureaucratism.
(d) Bureaucratism, cretinism, and subjectivism.

5. How did Lao Shi die?
(a) He fell from a walnut tree.
(b) He commited suicide.
(c) He was beaten to death while attempting to escape to Burma.
(d) He was accidentally shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?

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

3. What does Lao Wei counsel Yue Daiyun to do to redeem herself with the party?

4. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?

5. Why were many Chinese angry at the U.S. in 1951?

(see the answer key)

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