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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?
(a) It encouraged constant self-criticism.
(b) It encouraged denunciation of public figures.
(c) It encouraged slavish submission.
(d) It encouraged individuality.

2. What was Yue Daiyun's overriding reaction to her two years as a peasant worker?
(a) Shame.
(b) Resentment at time wasted.
(c) Anger.
(d) Gratitude.

3. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) Identify exemplary thinking in foreign literature.
(b) Identify sympathy toward villains in newspaper and magazine articles.
(c) Identify peasants as heroes in newspaper and magazine articles.
(d) Identify bourgeois thinking in foreign literature.

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

5. What effect did the Four Clean-Ups campaign have on Yue Daiyun's thinking?
(a) She felt determined to support the program.
(b) She at last saw her path clearly.
(c) She was bitterly opposed to the program.
(d) She felt bewildered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Yue Daiyun not protested when truckloads of students set out in a downpour?

2. What challenging assignment was Yue Daiyun given upon her return to teaching?

3. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?

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

5. Why were friendship bonds more likely at the cadre school than at Beida?

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