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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Teaching first-year students in literary history.
(c) Cutting stencils for supplementary materials.
(d) Working as a librarian.

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

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

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

7. What should a good Communist always refuse to a class enemy, according to what Yue Daiyun was taught?
(a) Financial assistance.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Forgiveness.

8. How does the bride approach her husband's home in Chinese tradition?
(a) She walks alone.
(b) She walks with her groom.
(c) She walks with her relatives.
(d) She is carried there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were ordinary people to be portrayed in literature considered appropriate during the Four Clean-Ups?

2. What did the revolutionary students say the literature department had done to corrupt student morality?

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

4. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?

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

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