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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) Open criticism of the Communist party.
(b) Capitalism
(c) A move to the right.
(d) Individuality.

2. What were Old Aunt and Old Uncle's parting gifts to Yue Daiyun?
(a) Walnuts and apricots.
(b) Eggs and walnuts.
(c) Rice and eggs.
(d) Apricots and rice.

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

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

5. What is an "ayi?"
(a) A grandmother.
(b) An aunt.
(c) A domestic helper.
(d) A Communist party leader.

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

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

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

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

10. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?
(a) Preparing breakfast for the group.
(b) Collecting clay to mix with coal for the fire.
(c) Drawing water.
(d) Collecting rocks to build a dam.

11. Why were the peasants reluctant to accept the land that they were given during land reform?
(a) They were afraid of the responsibility of ownership.
(b) They were afraid other peasants would be jealous.
(c) They were afraid of receiving the same retribution as their former landlords.
(d) They were afraid that exploitation would begin again.

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

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

14. Why did Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law insist that the family separate during meals?
(a) She didn't have time to prepare meals for the whole group.
(b) The children were affected by family arguments.
(c) She wanted to draw a line between her and Yue Daiyun.
(d) Lao Tang had been declared a "big black element."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?

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

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

4. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?

5. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?

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