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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were many Chinese angry at the U.S. in 1951?
(a) They disagreed with American democracy.
(b) They expected an American invasion.
(c) They were jealous of American prosperity.
(d) They were appalled by American selfishness.

2. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?
(a) The Party would punish such thinking.
(b) The Party had greater wisdom.
(c) Conscience is the voice of evil.
(d) The individual was always wrong.

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

4. What does it mean to "draw a line"?
(a) To make one's political position clear.
(b) To separate one's self from a suspect person.
(c) To align one's self with another person.
(d) To strengthen a common bond.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the peasants reluctant to accept the land that they were given during land reform?

2. How did Lao Shi die?

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

4. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?

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

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