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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 the owner's only holding.
(d) It must represent 80% of the owner's wealth.

5. What term was given to those whose parents were landlords?
(a) "Stinking rich."
(b) "Secret capitalist."
(c) "Counter-revolutionary."
(d) "Alien class element."

6. Why was returning to Beijing in 1966 disheartening for Yue Daiyun?
(a) She was discouraged about her own progress.
(b) She was disappointed at the low production.
(c) She was surprised at the lack of student enthusiasm.
(d) She was disillusioned with the system.

7. How many employees at China Information Headquarters were found to be politically untrustworthy during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-third.

8. Why did Yue Daiyun draw a line between herself and her husband's family?
(a) They were unkind to her.
(b) They were bourgeois intellectuals.
(c) They were unlearned peasants.
(d) They were outspoken anti-Communists.

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

10. What is the traditional baby gift given by a Chinese maternal grandmother?
(a) A complete layette for the first year.
(b) A stroller and carseat.
(c) A cradle and playpen.
(d) A keepsake baby cup.

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

12. What did the commune at Zhaitang produce for income?
(a) Chickens and millet.
(b) Apricot seeds and walnuts.
(c) Vegetables and wheat.
(d) Millet and rice.

13. What does Yue Daiyun do to comfort the injured Lao Shi?
(a) Tells him funny stories.
(b) Prepares buns from white flour.
(c) Smuggles cookies to him.
(d) Massages his injured back.

14. What necessary tool did the Beida students accuse the work team of failing to employ?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Violence.
(c) Reason.
(d) Logic.

15. What was the religion of the peasant family to whom Yue Daiyun was assigned in Xiaohongmen?
(a) Hindi.
(b) Confucian.
(c) Christian.
(d) Muslim.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were the Chinese literature students sent to work?

3. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?

4. How does the bride approach her husband's home in Chinese tradition?

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

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