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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?
(a) She had made a poster criticizing the Four Clean-Ups.
(b) She had written an essay that was critical of the system.
(c) She had taught students that the Three Red Banners were incorrect.
(d) She had praised a student essay that was critical of the system.

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

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

4. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?
(a) She was embarrassed by her family's prosperity.
(b) She wanted her wedding to be a revolutionary occasion.
(c) She knew her friends and family had limited resources.
(d) She was a simple person.

5. According to Chinese legend, why does a baby smile for the first time?
(a) To bid farewell to the goddess guarding it.
(b) To celebrate its first month on earth.
(c) To greet its parents.
(d) To thank the gods for its life.

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

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

8. What political decision did Yue Daiyun make upon her return to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) To focus on social issues and her studies.
(b) To become a leader in the field of literary history.
(c) To carefully select which social issues should involve her.
(d) To avoid social issues and concentrate on her studies.

9. What new family responsibility did Yue Daiyun assume at her mother-in-law's request?
(a) Family finances.
(b) Housecleaning.
(c) Child care.
(d) Cooking.

10. What song did Yue Daiyun's brother use to comfort her while she was being criticized?
(a) "La Donna est Mobile."
(b) "La Marseille."
(c) "My Old Kentucky Home."
(d) "I Dream of Jeannie."

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?

2. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?

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

4. Whose suspected crimes as an American spy caused Yue Daiyun to be questioned about their friendship?

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

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