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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Old Aunt and Old Uncle's parting gifts to Yue Daiyun?
(a) Eggs and walnuts.
(b) Walnuts and apricots.
(c) Rice and eggs.
(d) Apricots and rice.

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

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

4. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?
(a) The Communist party was wrong.
(b) People are unable to control their own fate.
(c) He was rightly criticized.
(d) He had been wrongly criticized.

5. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Capitalist ideas.
(b) Undermining Chairman Mao.
(c) Disrespect of Communist authority.
(d) Personal ambition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chinese belief, what do physical cataclysms often foretell?

2. How did Lao Shi die?

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

4. What did the Jinggang Mountain Corps want?

5. What was Yue Daiyun required to do for six months of the year in 1975?

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