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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Yue Diayun not as happy as the students at the prospect of returning to Beijing from the cadre school?
(a) She felt that education in the country was preferable.
(b) She felt that her family had been happier in the country.
(c) She felt that great effort had been wasted.
(d) She felt that Beida had nothing to offer peasant students.

3. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?
(a) He had failed in an assassination attempt.
(b) He was disillusioned with Communism.
(c) He was embezzling money.
(d) He had struck a deal with the Soviets.

4. What was the Red Guard?
(a) A department of the army.
(b) A civilian militia.
(c) A group of revolutionary students.
(d) A group of counter-revolutionary students.

5. What did the criminal activities of Lin Liguo and the defection of Lin Biao teach Yue Dainyun?
(a) She saw that there were few isolated instances of corruption.
(b) She saw that isolated instances of corruption were inevitable.
(c) She saw that corruption permeated the whole system.
(d) She saw that isolated instances of corruption were avoidable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Lao Wei exonerated from the rightist charge against him?

2. Why did Yue Daiyun and Lao Tang look forward to peasant life continuing?

3. Why were the peasants reluctant to accept the land that they were given during land reform?

4. What was Yue Daiyun's diet during her first months in Liyuzhou?

5. What does it mean to "draw a line"?

(see the answer key)

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