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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 distrust the new literature.
(b) Readers would lower their personal behavioral standards.
(c) Readers would suffer from unattainable ideals.
(d) Readers would emulate the literary characters.

2. What was seen as the danger in studying new ways of thinking through literature?
(a) Readers might reject Chairman Mao's thinking.
(b) Readers might become bored.
(c) Readers might come to believe there's no difference between right and wrong.
(d) Readers might come to sympathize with common people in realistic literature.

3. What did the students use for hats on the academicians they publicly paraded?
(a) Blindfolds.
(b) Wastebaskets.
(c) Dunce caps.
(d) Handmade caps.

4. What did the Jinggang Mountain Corps want?
(a) To support Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.
(b) To overthrow Chairman Mao.
(c) To overthrow Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.
(d) To dominate the Red Guard.

5. How many employees at China Information Headquarters were found to be politically untrustworthy during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) One-half.
(b) One-third.
(c) One in ten.
(d) Two-thirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?

2. Why was returning to Beijing in 1966 disheartening for Yue Daiyun?

3. How were students selected for university admission in 1970?

4. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?

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

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