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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?
(a) Collecting rocks to build a dam.
(b) Collecting clay to mix with coal for the fire.
(c) Preparing breakfast for the group.
(d) Drawing water.

3. What was the fate of the peasant university students who had not been given an education?
(a) They were given another chance for a university education.
(b) They were inducted into the army.
(c) They were sent to labor in the countryside.
(d) They were accepted for factory work.

4. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?
(a) It led to decreased overall yield.
(b) It was capitalist exploitation.
(c) It was unfair to those who slacked in their work.
(d) It favored those who worked hardest.

5. How was Beida preparing for nuclear war in 1972?
(a) Designing nuclear weapons.
(b) Establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
(c) Digging air raid shelters.
(d) Hiding a nuclear arsenal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a kang?

2. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?

3. What was "night fighting?"

4. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

5. What policy sent Yue Daiyun to the countryside in 1965?

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