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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Old Aunt and Old Uncle's parting gifts to Yue Daiyun?
(a) Eggs and walnuts.
(b) Rice and eggs.
(c) Walnuts and apricots.
(d) Apricots and rice.

2. Why was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?
(a) For listening to foreign radio stations.
(b) For trying to leave China.
(c) For condemning Communist policies.
(d) For condemning Chairman Mao.

3. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?
(a) She observed social inequality.
(b) The Chinese visitors were rudely treated.
(c) The Chinese visitors were not considered equals.
(d) She wasn't allowed to visit Red Square.

4. How were landlords punished in the village of Jiangxi during land reform?
(a) They were killed.
(b) They were sent away.
(c) They were harassed.
(d) They were beaten.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?

4. What is a cadre?

5. What was the religion of the peasant family to whom Yue Daiyun was assigned in Xiaohongmen?

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