Assignment 51 Towards Socialism

What term goes with this definition?

Groups of 30-50 peasant households who pooled land and labour, sharing out the proceeds at the end of the year according to the number of days worked and the amount of land each family had contributed. These were introduced in 1952-3.

• Mutual Aid Teams

• Lower Stage Agricultural Producers' Cooperatives

• Higher Stage Agricultural Producers' Cooperatives

• Communes

What percentage of the national budget was spent on education in the 1950s?

• 1.3%

• 3.4%

• 3.8%

• 6.4%

• 12.9%

What percentage of the national budget was spent on health in the 1950s?

• 1.3%

• 3.4%

• 3.8%

• 6.4%

• 12.9%

What percentage of Chinese primary-school aged children were in school by 1976

• 20%

• 30%

• 48%

• 96%

• 97%

What percentage of Chinese adults was literate in 1949?

• 20%

• 30%

• 48%

• 96%

• 97%

What percentage of Chinese peasants had been collectivised by the end of 1956?

• 20%

• 30%

• 48%

• 96%

• 97%

What years did the First Five-Year Plan run?

• 1950-54

• 1951-55

• 1952-56

• 1953-57

In what year were Higher Stage APCs (Agricultural Producers' Cooperatives) introduced?

• 1950

• 1952

• 1954

• 1955

• 1956

Which is Chang and Halliday's explanation for the launching of the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

• He was unable to get his way in debates within the party over the results of the Five- Year Plan and the future pace of economic change. He called on intellectuals outside the party to criticize the party to put pressure on officials who were in his way.

• He was afraid the party was becoming bureaucratized and alienated from the masses. He was the campaign as a rectification movement.

• He was setting a trap to smoke out opponents of the party.

By how much did agricultural productivity rise between 1953-57?

• 1.3%

• 3.4%

• 3.8%

• 6.4%

• 12.9%