Lesson 1
1 Early changes in agriculture, 1949–57 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 16
20 questions
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The 20 questions
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What was the main aim of land reform in the early 1950s?
- Industrialising cities
- Abolishing taxes
- Redistributing land
- Creating collectives
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What core practice of landlordism did the CCP attack?
- Crop rotation
- Grain storage
- Tool sharing
- Rent collection
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What were mutual aid teams in early Chinese agriculture?
- Forced communes
- Private estates
- Voluntary labour sharing
- State-owned farms
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What stage of collectivisation followed mutual aid teams?
- Private farming
- Agricultural cooperatives
- State monopolies
- People's communes
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When did enforced collectivisation spread?
- Around 1949–50
- Around 1955–56
- Around 1960–61
- Around 1965–66
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What was the main economic goal of early agricultural collectivisation?
- Increasing foreign trade
- Stopping inflation
- Halting urban migration
- Generating industrial surplus
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What was the primary economic aim of early agricultural cooperatives in China?
- Increase grain production
- Reduce crop variety
- Promote private ownership
- Abolish all farming
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Which rural group was the main beneficiary of early Chinese land reform?
- Poor and landless peasants
- Foreign investors
- Industrial factory owners
- Wealthy landlords
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A village landlord loses his land to poor families in 1950. Which policy is this?
- Land reform
- Great Leap Forward
- Hundred Flowers
- Five-Year Plan
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Which early reform stage involved households sharing tools while keeping their land?
- Advanced communes
- Private enterprise
- Mutual aid teams
- State-owned farms
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A village merges into a large collective where all land is shared. What stage is this?
- Mutual aid team
- Private family farm
- Advanced cooperative
- Land reform team
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A peasant refuses to join a cooperative in 1956 and is pressured. Which policy is this?
- Free land grants
- Voluntary cooperative membership
- Private farming subsidies
- Enforced collectivisation
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What policy required peasants to sell their surplus grain to the state?
- State grain procurement
- Voluntary gifting
- Free market trading
- Agricultural outsourcing
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Why did the CCP want to end private grain trading during the 1950s?
- Increase food imports
- Encourage free markets
- Support rural villages
- Fund industrial growth
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What was a direct social result of early Chinese land reform?
- Mass urban migration
- Widespread private wealth
- Greater land equality
- Total crop failure
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What happened to peasants who resisted enforced collectivisation in China?
- Immediate pardons
- Financial rewards
- Land grants
- Pressure and punishment
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Why did the CCP shift from voluntary cooperatives to enforced collectivisation?
- Peasants demanded it
- Foreign aid arrived
- Crops failed entirely
- Progress was too slow
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Which best describes the two-stage progression of early Chinese agricultural policy?
- Land reform then collectivisation
- Collectivisation then land reform
- Industrialisation then farming
- Privatisation then rationing
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Why did the CCP view landlords as class enemies during land reform?
- They supported foreign trade
- They lived in cities
- To break class power
- They grew no crops
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How did Chinese agriculture support early industrialisation in the 1950s?
- Providing grain surpluses
- Training factory workers
- Exporting luxury goods
- Importing foreign steel
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