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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?
(a) Search faculty houses for capitalist possessions.
(b) Reveal counter-revolutionary statements in magazines and newspapers.
(c) Investigate the lives of government officials.
(d) Reveal bourgeois thinking among teachers.

2. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?
(a) Distributing underground literature.
(b) Secret subversive activity.
(c) Attacking Chairman Mao's policies.
(d) Poor quality poems.

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

4. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?
(a) "Small."
(b) "Dear."
(c) "Son."
(d) "Grand."

5. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?
(a) She had written an essay that was critical of the system.
(b) She had taught students that the Three Red Banners were incorrect.
(c) She had made a poster criticizing the Four Clean-Ups.
(d) She had praised a student essay that was critical of the system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unexpected speaker came to the meeting on July 22 during the student struggles?

2. What political decision did Yue Daiyun make upon her return to Beida after her two-year absence?

3. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

4. What new family responsibility did Yue Daiyun assume at her mother-in-law's request?

5. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?

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