Lesson 2E.1.2
2E.1.2 Agriculture and industry, 1949–65 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 5
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The 20 questions
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What main form of aid did the Soviet Union supply for China's First Five-Year Plan?
- Military troops
- Agricultural grain
- Naval fleets
- Technical expertise
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Which strategy did Mao rely on during the Great Leap Forward to boost production?
- Foreign loans
- Soviet aid
- Free market competition
- Mass mobilisation
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What communal institutions reorganised rural life and labour during the Great Leap Forward?
- State farms
- Private smallholdings
- People's communes
- Collective cooperatives
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Which Soviet scientist's flawed agricultural theories were adopted during the Great Leap Forward?
- Nikolai Vavilov
- Ivan Pavlov
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Trofim Lysenko
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Which minister was purged after criticising the Great Leap Forward at the 1959 Lushan Conference?
- Deng Xiaoping
- Zhou Enlai
- Peng Dehuai
- Lin Biao
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What catastrophic disaster resulted directly from the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
- Great Chinese Famine
- Sino-Soviet split
- Cultural Revolution
- Four Cleanups Campaign
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Why were official harvest figures drastically overreported during the Great Leap Forward?
- Foreign intelligence sabotage
- Local official exaggeration
- Soviet falsification
- Computer calculation errors
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Which two leaders introduced pragmatic economic reforms to recover from the Great Famine?
- Peng and Gao
- Mao and Lin
- Liu and Deng
- Zhou and Jiang
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Where were commune members forced to eat during the Great Leap Forward?
- State restaurants
- Communal canteens
- Private kitchens
- Military barracks
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Which country's steel output did Mao aim to overtake during the Great Leap Forward?
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Japan
- Great Britain
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What was the primary goal of the 1962–65 economic reforms under Liu Shaoqi?
- Production recovery
- Immediate communism
- Total collectivisation
- Rapid militarisation
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What set production targets and wages in state-owned enterprises in the early PRC?
- Central planning
- Trade unions
- Free market demand
- Foreign investors
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Which sector grew slowest during China's First Five-Year Plan (1952–57)?
- Agriculture
- Coal mining
- Heavy industry
- Transport
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What combined agricultural production, local government, healthcare, and education in Mao's China?
- Mutual aid teams
- People's communes
- Work units
- Collective farms
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In which year were private farming plots restored to help recover from the Great Leap Forward?
- 1960
- 1958
- 1966
- 1962
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What was a key cause of poor quality metal production during the Great Leap Forward?
- Soviet sabotage
- Worker strikes
- Backyard furnaces
- Foreign blockades
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Unlike the First Five-Year Plan, what did the Second Five-Year Plan rely on heavily?
- Soviet technical aid
- Centralised planning
- Foreign loans
- Mass mobilisation
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Who was purged at the 1959 Lushan Conference for criticising the Great Leap Forward?
- Zhou Enlai
- Liu Shaoqi
- Deng Xiaoping
- Peng Dehuai
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What smaller unit took over agricultural organisation from communes following the Great Leap Forward?
- State farms
- Production teams
- Mutual aid teams
- Collectives
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What was the main output of the Great Leap Forward's backyard steel furnaces?
- Industrial machinery
- Precision weapons
- Unusable iron
- High-grade steel
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