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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were alleged to be Black Gang members?
(a) Anyone acquainted with Nie Yuanzi.
(b) Anyone putting up incendiary posters.
(c) Anyone connected to Lao Tang.
(d) Anyone connected with Lu Ping.

2. What does Lao Wei counsel Yue Daiyun to do to redeem herself with the party?
(a) Admit guilt, even if it is untrue.
(b) Accuse others.
(c) Deny guilt.
(d) Tell the truth.

3. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?
(a) The Party would punish such thinking.
(b) Conscience is the voice of evil.
(c) The Party had greater wisdom.
(d) The individual was always wrong.

4. What health problem had complicated Yue Daiyun's pregnancy?
(a) Low blood pressure.
(b) Morning sickness.
(c) High blood pressure.
(d) Swollen ankles.

5. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?
(a) She needed her strength to work.
(b) He didn't have much of an appetite.
(c) He had plenty of food stored away.
(d) She was new to hunger, but he was used to it.

6. How were ordinary people to be portrayed in literature considered appropriate during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) As heroes.
(b) As superhuman.
(c) As real people with normal challenges.
(d) As villains.

7. How did Lao Shi die?
(a) He was beaten to death while attempting to escape to Burma.
(b) He was accidentally shot.
(c) He fell from a walnut tree.
(d) He commited suicide.

8. What were the "triple evils" to be eliminated in 1957?
(a) Bureaucratism, cretinism, and subjectivism.
(b) Subjectivism, sectarianism, and bureaucratism.
(c) Objectivism, Confucianism, and sectarianism.
(d) Sectarianism, bureaucratism, and socialism.

9. What is an "ayi?"
(a) A Communist party leader.
(b) A grandmother.
(c) A domestic helper.
(d) An aunt.

10. Why did Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law insist that the family separate during meals?
(a) She wanted to draw a line between her and Yue Daiyun.
(b) She didn't have time to prepare meals for the whole group.
(c) The children were affected by family arguments.
(d) Lao Tang had been declared a "big black element."

11. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?
(a) Accuse others to them.
(b) Bribe them with extra work.
(c) Point out their errors and mistakes.
(d) Pretend not to notice wrongdoing.

12. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) Writing commentaries on poems of the Tang dynasty.
(b) Working as a librarian.
(c) Cutting stencils for supplementary materials.
(d) Teaching first-year students in literary history.

13. Who was Yue Daiyun's first love?
(a) Gao Zhongyi.
(b) Robert Winter.
(c) Lao Gu.
(d) Lao Tang.

14. What is a cadre?
(a) A prisoner.
(b) A revolutionary trainer.
(c) An informant.
(d) A revolutionary trainee.

15. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Disrespect of Communist authority.
(b) Capitalist ideas.
(c) Undermining Chairman Mao.
(d) Personal ambition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

2. Why did Yue Daiyun draw a line between herself and her husband's family?

3. What is the first "To the Storm"?

4. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

5. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?

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