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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lao Tang's concern after being criticized for his membership in Liang Xiao?
(a) Yue Daiyun would be humiliated.
(b) He would be killed.
(c) His children would suffer.
(d) It would reflect badly on his parents.

2. What natural disaster hit China in July of 1976?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) Wildfires.
(c) A volcanic eruption.
(d) A flood.

3. How was Lao Wei exonerated from the rightist charge against him?
(a) He made a false confession.
(b) His cadre affirmed his good work habits.
(c) Yue Daiyun proved the criticisms wrong.
(d) The peasants spoke in his behalf.

4. Why did Zhou Enlai not order the helicopter carrying Lin Biao's co-conspirators shot down?
(a) He was part of the conspiracy himself.
(b) He wanted the conspirators imprisoned.
(c) He wanted survivors to tell what happened.
(d) He sympathized with Lin Biao.

5. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?
(a) Beida.
(b) Tiananmen Square.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Quanzhou.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the "three separations" believed to plague university education?

2. Why did Yue Daiyun draw a line between herself and her husband's family?

3. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?

4. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?

5. Why was Yue Daiyun encouraged in 1977?

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