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Text-Dependent Questions
Directions: For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
PARTA: Which TWO of the following best identify the central ideas of this text?
Mao was an evil dictator because he planned to kill 45 millon Chinese people.
B Mao was an ambitious leader who wanted to help China, but his philosophy was
ignored when young people took over.
С Mao's polides hurt China's economy, stripped individual freedoms and cost
D. Dictatorship can be good when it leads to the redistribution of wealth and leads
E In order to move forward, one must destroy the old, including old culture, old
When people follow the status quo or a charismatic leader, dangerous
consequences and violence can arise.
F.
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PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A?
А the project was outsired and over-ambitious, so was its author: Mao"
Paragraph 2)
B "Mao's first wrong step was to launch a so-called "Great Leap Forward,' a 1958
program that called for a drastic collectization of China's farms and boosting of
industrial production." (Paragraph 4)
С To restore his prestige as a reformer, Mao launched in 1966 another, even
more ambitious program for changing China." (Paragraph 7)
D. "Mao's call to rebel against the system'fell on the receptive ears of a generation
of Chinese that, as a result of aggressive propaganda, worshipped him.. Mhe
zealots poured out of their homes and classrooms and set out to purge China of
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E Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the
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F At the end of the Cultural Revolution, China was, simply put, a police state in
which the Chinese people had no individual rights no control over their lives,
over what they could read, where they worked, where their children went to
school." (Paragraph 15
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PARTA: What does the word "zea lor most closely mean as it is used in paragraph 87
A Someone gullible or easily persuaded
B
Minors young people
Leaders, courageous and driven individuals
D. Fanatical followers of a cause