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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's overriding reaction to her two years as a peasant worker?
(a) Shame.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Anger.
(d) Resentment at time wasted.

2. What is the first "To the Storm"?
(a) A poem written by Yue Daiyun.
(b) A song written by Sun Yat-Sen.
(c) A novel by Stendhal.
(d) A chapter from Chairman Mao's Red Book.

3. What was "Contemporary Heroes"?
(a) A foreign novel.
(b) A blog.
(c) A literary magazine.
(d) An underground newspaper.

4. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) Identify peasants as heroes in newspaper and magazine articles.
(b) Identify sympathy toward villains in newspaper and magazine articles.
(c) Identify bourgeois thinking in foreign literature.
(d) Identify exemplary thinking in foreign literature.

5. Why were the peasants reluctant to accept the land that they were given during land reform?
(a) They were afraid that exploitation would begin again.
(b) They were afraid of the responsibility of ownership.
(c) They were afraid of receiving the same retribution as their former landlords.
(d) They were afraid other peasants would be jealous.

6. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?
(a) Refusal of the peasant workers to cooperate.
(b) Mismanagement.
(c) Lack of seeds.
(d) Drought.

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

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

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

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

11. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?
(a) The Communist party was wrong.
(b) People are unable to control their own fate.
(c) He had been wrongly criticized.
(d) He was rightly criticized.

12. What effect did the struggle sessions have on Lao Chen, the literature department head?
(a) He commited suicide.
(b) He was forced to resign or be fired from his position.
(c) He was sent to the countryside for re-education.
(d) He resigned his position.

13. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?
(a) It must represent the owner's only holding.
(b) It could not be rented or resold.
(c) It must represent 80% of the owner's wealth.
(d) It must be purchased from the Communist party.

14. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?
(a) Criticism of Lao Tang's friendship with her.
(b) Being forced to criticize others.
(c) Facing criticism as a rightist.
(d) Realizing that the famine in 1959 was manmade.

15. What was the rationale for putting literature students to hard physical labor?
(a) To get them away from violence on campus.
(b) To help them understand and unite with the workers.
(c) To provide them material about which to write.
(d) To help them develop better physical conditioning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many employees at China Information Headquarters were found to be politically untrustworthy during the Four Clean-Ups?

2. What new family responsibility did Yue Daiyun assume at her mother-in-law's request?

3. How did night meetings at the commune in Zhaitang attempt to educate the peasants?

4. What happened for the first time during the June 18th affair?

5. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?

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