Lesson 3

3 Consolidating the CCP’s hold on power, 1951–52 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 16

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The 20 questions

  1. What targets were focused on during the 'three antis' campaigns?

    • Corruption and waste
    • Foreign businessmen
    • Literacy rates
    • Agricultural output

  2. Who was primarily targeted during the 'five antis' campaigns?

    • Poor intellectuals
    • Army generals
    • Urban business people
    • Peasant farmers

  3. Which term described enemies of the state in early PRC campaigns?

    • Model worker
    • Counter-revolutionary
    • Bourgeois expert
    • Party cadre

  4. What was the main action of the 1951 Campaign to Suppress Counter-revolutionaries?

    • Land redistribution
    • Arrests and executions
    • Educational expansion
    • Tax reforms

  5. Which groups were officially designated as class enemies in early communist rule?

    • Workers and peasants
    • Landlords and capitalists
    • Soldiers and medics
    • Students and teachers

  6. What was the primary effect of early mass campaigns on CCP authority?

    • Economic collapse
    • Increased pluralism
    • Strengthened control
    • Military mutiny

  7. Which years did the Three Antis and Five Antis campaigns cover?

    • 1945–49
    • 1951–52
    • 1958–62
    • 1956–57

  8. What term describes labelling people as enemies of the state?

    • Opportunist waverer
    • Bourgeois individualist
    • Revisionist deviationist
    • Counter-revolutionary

  9. A factory owner is accused of cheating the state on contracts and bribing officials. Which campaign targeted him?

    • Five antis
    • Three antis
    • Hundred Flowers
    • Great Leap Forward

  10. A party official wastes public funds and resists orders. Which campaign would target him?

    • Three antis
    • Anti-Rightist campaign
    • Land reform
    • Five antis

  11. What primary method did the CCP use to deal with suspected Guomindang sympathisers?

    • Fair trials
    • Voluntary exile
    • State terror
    • Financial bribes

  12. What was the primary purpose of public denunciation meetings in villages?

    • Intimidation
    • Entertainment
    • Vocational training
    • Fair arbitration

  13. Which emotion predominantly shaped everyday behaviour in China by 1952?

    • Confidence
    • Fear
    • Indifference
    • Optimism

  14. A new officer must attend self-criticism sessions repeatedly. Which practice is this?

    • Free press
    • Academic freedom
    • Land redistribution
    • Thought reform

  15. How did the CCP prevent the formation of independent opposition groups?

    • Funding rival parties
    • Granting legal status
    • Holding open elections
    • Banning independent organisations

  16. What was the main purpose of the CCP anti-corruption campaigns in 1951-52?

    • Encourage free speech
    • Improve private trade
    • Remove political rivals
    • Promote foreign investment

  17. How did mass campaigns help the CCP enforce control in 1951-52?

    • Guaranteed fair trials
    • Increased military wages
    • Protected private land
    • Created public fear

  18. What method was central to CCP consolidation of power by 1952?

    • Tax exemptions
    • Foreign alliances
    • Democratic voting
    • Political coercion

  19. What did the Three Antis and Five Antis campaigns target?

    • Agricultural output
    • Corruption and disloyalty
    • Foreign diplomats
    • Religious freedom

  20. Which tactic made ordinary people fear political opposition in 1951-52?

    • Curfew laws
    • Public executions
    • Food rationing
    • Higher taxation

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