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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unexpected speaker came to the meeting on July 22 during the student struggles?
(a) Tao Zhu.
(b) Mao Anqing.
(c) Jiang Qing.
(d) Chairman Mao.

2. What did the revolutionary students say the literature department had done to corrupt student morality?
(a) Advocated illicit sexual relations.
(b) Allowed the reading of "yellow novels."
(c) Taught bourgeois ideologies.
(d) Encouraged suicide.

3. What is the traditional baby gift given by a Chinese maternal grandmother?
(a) A complete layette for the first year.
(b) A stroller and carseat.
(c) A cradle and playpen.
(d) A keepsake baby cup.

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

5. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?
(a) Being forced to criticize others.
(b) Criticism of Lao Tang's friendship with her.
(c) Realizing that the famine in 1959 was manmade.
(d) Facing criticism as a rightist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a kang?

2. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?

3. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?

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

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

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