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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chairman Mao seem to be encouraging in 1956?
(a) A move to the right.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Capitalism
(d) Open criticism of the Communist party.

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

3. What physical affliction had Yue Daiyun's father-in-law suffered in her two-year absence?
(a) Debilitating high blood pressure.
(b) Heart failure.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) A paralyzing stroke.

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

5. How many people in Beida had been declared rightists in 1958?
(a) One hundred students and 500 faculty members.
(b) Three hundred faculty members.
(c) Five hundred students and 100 faculty members.
(d) Seven hundred students.

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

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

8. 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 her husband was to be honored.
(d) A meeting at which she was to be criticized.

9. What does it mean to "draw a line"?
(a) To align one's self with another person.
(b) To make one's political position clear.
(c) To separate one's self from a suspect person.
(d) To strengthen a common bond.

10. 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 was sent to the countryside for re-education.
(d) He commited suicide.

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

12. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?
(a) "Old."
(b) "Sweet."
(c) "Friend."
(d) "Baby."

13. What did the revolutionary students say the literature department had done to corrupt student morality?
(a) Advocated illicit sexual relations.
(b) Allowed the reading of "yellow novels."
(c) Encouraged suicide.
(d) Taught bourgeois ideologies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?

2. What challenging assignment was Yue Daiyun given upon her return to teaching?

3. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?

4. According to Chinese legend, why does a baby smile for the first time?

5. Who were alleged to be Black Gang members?

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