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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?
(a) She had taught students that the Three Red Banners were incorrect.
(b) She had made a poster criticizing the Four Clean-Ups.
(c) She had praised a student essay that was critical of the system.
(d) She had written an essay that was critical of the system.

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

3. Why were the students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou not enthused about their prospects there?
(a) They didn't see the purpose of formal education.
(b) There would be no time for study.
(c) There were no libraries, books, or paper.
(d) There were no competent teachers.

4. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?
(a) He had plenty of food stored away.
(b) She was new to hunger, but he was used to it.
(c) He didn't have much of an appetite.
(d) She needed her strength to work.

5. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) Writing commentaries on poems of the Tang dynasty.
(b) Cutting stencils for supplementary materials.
(c) Working as a librarian.
(d) Teaching first-year students in literary history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?

3. What was seen as the danger in studying new ways of thinking through literature?

4. What was the first lesson in self-reliance the new students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou would learn?

5. Why did Lao Tang's photograph with Liang Xiao members become a problem?

(see the answer key)

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