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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?
(a) It encouraged immorality.
(b) It encouraged individual creativity over self-effacement.
(c) It encouraged disrespect.
(d) It encouraged blind acquiescence.

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

3. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?
(a) Administrators and Nie Yuanzi.
(b) Jinggang Mountain and Nie Yuanzi.
(c) Students and teachers.
(d) New Beida and Jinggang Mountain.

4. What were the "five-same-thing" teachers to do?
(a) Eat, live, sleep, study and reform thoughts with the students.
(b) Sleep, study, reform thoughts, eat and compose poetry with the students.
(c) Eat, live, labor, study, and reform thoughts with the students.
(d) Develop posters, eat, study, reform thoughts, and labor with the students.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the traditional baby gift given by a Chinese maternal grandmother?

2. Why was depression widespread in 1967?

3. What two groups did Yue Daiyun believe would restore order to China in 1968?

4. What pseudonym had Lao Tang and Lao Li, his friend, used to publish articles about Chinese philosophy?

5. According to Chinese legend, why does a baby smile for the first time?

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