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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?
(a) She wanted her wedding to be a revolutionary occasion.
(b) She knew her friends and family had limited resources.
(c) She was embarrassed by her family's prosperity.
(d) She was a simple person.

2. Where were the Chinese literature students sent to work?
(a) In libraries.
(b) On dam sites.
(c) In coal mines.
(d) On farms.

3. How were ordinary people to be portrayed in literature considered appropriate during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) As villains.
(b) As real people with normal challenges.
(c) As superhuman.
(d) As heroes.

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

5. What was Yue Daiyun's overriding reaction to her two years as a peasant worker?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Resentment at time wasted.
(c) Anger.
(d) Shame.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was returning to Beijing in 1966 disheartening for Yue Daiyun?

3. Why did Yue Daiyun relate to her sister-in-law's father?

4. What did the commune at Zhaitang produce for income?

5. How many employees at China Information Headquarters were found to be politically untrustworthy during the Four Clean-Ups?

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