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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What policy sent Yue Daiyun to the countryside in 1965?
(a) The Three Red Banners.
(b) The Second Land Reform.
(c) The Four Clean-Ups.
(d) Clean the Class.

2. How many people was Yue Daiyun required to identify as rightists?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Five.

3. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) Twenty-five percent.
(c) Five percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

4. What is the "white and expert way"?
(a) Political ideals.
(b) Democratic ideas.
(c) Clarity of thought.
(d) Academic or technical expertise.

5. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?
(a) "Dear."
(b) "Small."
(c) "Grand."
(d) "Son."

6. How were landlords punished in the village of Jiangxi during land reform?
(a) They were beaten.
(b) They were sent away.
(c) They were harassed.
(d) They were killed.

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

8. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?
(a) She became ill and spent the time recuperating.
(b) Her baby didn't remember her, and she was a stranger on campus.
(c) She had to face charges and criticism at home.
(d) Her students were openly hostile to her.

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

10. What did the students use for hats on the academicians they publicly paraded?
(a) Handmade caps.
(b) Blindfolds.
(c) Wastebaskets.
(d) Dunce caps.

11. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?
(a) A meeting at which she was to be honored.
(b) A meeting at which her husband was to be criticized.
(c) A meeting at which she was to be criticized.
(d) A meeting at which her husband was to be honored.

12. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?
(a) Teaching capitalist ideas.
(b) Staying up all night talking with Yue Daiyun.
(c) Killing frogs who were interrupting the music.
(d) Supporting rightist teachers.

13. Why did Yue Daiyun relate to her sister-in-law's father?
(a) They were both condemned as rightists.
(b) They were from the same home town.
(c) They were the same age.
(d) They were both appalled at the elaborate wedding ceremony.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people in Beida had been declared rightists in 1958?

2. What health problem had complicated Yue Daiyun's pregnancy?

3. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?

4. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?

5. What is a kang?

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