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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in Beida had been declared rightists in 1958?
(a) Seven hundred students.
(b) One hundred students and 500 faculty members.
(c) Three hundred faculty members.
(d) Five hundred students and 100 faculty members.

2. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?
(a) A meeting at which she was to be honored.
(b) A meeting at which she was to be criticized.
(c) A meeting at which her husband was to be criticized.
(d) A meeting at which her husband was to be honored.

3. Who were the first enemies of the Communists to be punished by being publicly paraded?
(a) Political figures.
(b) Landlords.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Revolutionaries.

4. What is the first "To the Storm"?
(a) A chapter from Chairman Mao's Red Book.
(b) A song written by Sun Yat-Sen.
(c) A poem written by Yue Daiyun.
(d) A novel by Stendhal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Lao Wei counsel Yue Daiyun to do to redeem herself with the party?

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

5. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?

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