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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?
(a) Accuse others to them.
(b) Bribe them with extra work.
(c) Point out their errors and mistakes.
(d) Pretend not to notice wrongdoing.

2. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Disrespect of Communist authority.
(b) Undermining Chairman Mao.
(c) Capitalist ideas.
(d) Personal ambition.

3. What did the commune at Zhaitang produce for income?
(a) Apricot seeds and walnuts.
(b) Millet and rice.
(c) Vegetables and wheat.
(d) Chickens and millet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the traditional baby gift given by a Chinese maternal grandmother?

2. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?

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

4. What physical difficulty was brought on for Yue Daiyun and others by the famine in Zhaitang?

5. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?

(see the answer key)

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