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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?
(a) Readers would suffer from unattainable ideals.
(b) Readers would emulate the literary characters.
(c) Readers would distrust the new literature.
(d) Readers would lower their personal behavioral standards.

2. What was Yue Daiyun's job during the famine in Zhaitang?
(a) Collecting apricot pits for oil.
(b) Grinding corncobs to make flour.
(c) Caring for pigs.
(d) Pitting walnuts.

3. What did the commune at Zhaitang produce for income?
(a) Vegetables and wheat.
(b) Chickens and millet.
(c) Apricot seeds and walnuts.
(d) Millet and rice.

4. How were workers and peasants to be portrayed in all acceptable literary work?
(a) As "humble, wise, and meek."
(b) As "tall, valued, and perfect."
(c) As "heroic and noble."
(d) As "upwardly mobile."

5. What is the traditional baby gift given by a Chinese maternal grandmother?
(a) A stroller and carseat.
(b) A keepsake baby cup.
(c) A complete layette for the first year.
(d) A cradle and playpen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?

2. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?

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

4. What is sent out to announce a baby's one-month anniversary?

5. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?

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