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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a kang?
(a) A sleeping bag.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A heated sleeping platform.
(d) A sleeping mat.

2. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?
(a) Attacking Chairman Mao's policies.
(b) Distributing underground literature.
(c) Secret subversive activity.
(d) Poor quality poems.

3. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?
(a) It must represent the owner's only holding.
(b) It must represent 80% of the owner's wealth.
(c) It could not be rented or resold.
(d) It must be purchased from the Communist party.

4. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) Identify sympathy toward villains in newspaper and magazine articles.
(b) Identify peasants as heroes in newspaper and magazine articles.
(c) Identify bourgeois thinking in foreign literature.
(d) Identify exemplary thinking in foreign literature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose suspected crimes as an American spy caused Yue Daiyun to be questioned about their friendship?

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

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