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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?
(a) Collecting rocks to build a dam.
(b) Drawing water.
(c) Collecting clay to mix with coal for the fire.
(d) Preparing breakfast for the group.

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

3. How did Yue Daiyun accidentally injure Lao Tang?
(a) She and the children injured his back while carrying him.
(b) She tripped him, and he fell.
(c) She dropped him while carrying him.
(d) She hit him with a lamp, not knowing he was there.

4. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?
(a) It must represent the owner's only holding.
(b) It must be purchased from the Communist party.
(c) It must represent 80% of the owner's wealth.
(d) It could not be rented or resold.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?

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

4. How did Nie Yuanzi attempt to flush out the 250 besieged Jinggang Mountain students?

5. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?

(see the answer key)

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