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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What challenging assignment was Yue Daiyun given upon her return to teaching?
(a) Teaching Chinese to foreign students.
(b) Explicating Tang dynasty literature.
(c) Developing a political writing course.
(d) Teaching modern literature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

2. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?

3. Why did Yue Daiyun draw a line between herself and her husband's family?

4. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?

5. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?

(see the answer key)

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