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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did night meetings at the commune in Zhaitang attempt to educate the peasants?
(a) By purchasing textbooks for them.
(b) By teaching them basic literacy.
(c) By turning on radio news broadcasts for them.
(d) By reading newspapers to them.

7. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?
(a) Attacking Chairman Mao's policies.
(b) Secret subversive activity.
(c) Poor quality poems.
(d) Distributing underground literature.

8. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?
(a) It was capitalist exploitation.
(b) It favored those who worked hardest.
(c) It led to decreased overall yield.
(d) It was unfair to those who slacked in their work.

9. How was Lao Wei exonerated from the rightist charge against him?
(a) The peasants spoke in his behalf.
(b) Yue Daiyun proved the criticisms wrong.
(c) His cadre affirmed his good work habits.
(d) He made a false confession.

10. What was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Singing.
(c) Calisthenics.
(d) Sketching.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was returning to Beijing in 1966 disheartening for Yue Daiyun?

2. Why did Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law insist that the family separate during meals?

3. Why was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?

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

5. What is sent out to announce a baby's one-month anniversary?

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