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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) Writing commentaries on poems of the Tang dynasty.
(b) Cutting stencils for supplementary materials.
(c) Working as a librarian.
(d) Teaching first-year students in literary history.

2. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?
(a) Accuse others to them.
(b) Bribe them with extra work.
(c) Pretend not to notice wrongdoing.
(d) Point out their errors and mistakes.

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

4. What is the "white and expert way"?
(a) Political ideals.
(b) Clarity of thought.
(c) Academic or technical expertise.
(d) Democratic ideas.

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

6. What is the first "To the Storm"?
(a) A poem written by Yue Daiyun.
(b) A novel by Stendhal.
(c) A song written by Sun Yat-Sen.
(d) A chapter from Chairman Mao's Red Book.

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

8. How were landlords punished in the village of Jiangxi during land reform?
(a) They were sent away.
(b) They were beaten.
(c) They were killed.
(d) They were harassed.

9. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?
(a) In a wheelbarrow.
(b) On a shoulder pole.
(c) In handheld buckets.
(d) On her head.

10. Where were the Chinese literature students sent to work?
(a) In libraries.
(b) On farms.
(c) On dam sites.
(d) In coal mines.

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

12. What effect did the Four Clean-Ups campaign have on Yue Daiyun's thinking?
(a) She felt determined to support the program.
(b) She felt bewildered.
(c) She was bitterly opposed to the program.
(d) She at last saw her path clearly.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun draw a line between herself and her husband's family?

2. Why were many Chinese angry at the U.S. in 1951?

3. What policy sent Yue Daiyun to the countryside in 1965?

4. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?

5. How many people was Yue Daiyun required to identify as rightists?

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