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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 taught students that the Three Red Banners were incorrect.
(c) She had made a poster criticizing the Four Clean-Ups.
(d) She had written an essay that was critical of the system.

3. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?
(a) "Old."
(b) "Sweet."
(c) "Friend."
(d) "Baby."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical difficulty was brought on for Yue Daiyun and others by the famine in Zhaitang?

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

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

4. What effect did the Four Clean-Ups campaign have on Yue Daiyun's thinking?

5. What is the "white and expert way"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the message of Yue Daiyun's poem "To the Storm"?

2. What were "middle characters"? Why were they considered unacceptable?

3. In 1976, what did the students do to Yue Daiyun's home?

4. What did Yue Daiyun see in Old Uncle that she had never seen among the intellectuals?

5. What was the rationale for sending Chinese literature students to work in the mines?

6. Why did Yue Dainyun feel worse on returning from the countryside in 1966 than she had when returning in 1960?

7. What advice does Lao Wei give Yue Daiyun about survival in the countryside?

8. Why did Yue Daiyun support Party policy above her own conscience?

9. How did the newspaper articles during the Four Clean-Ups confuse Yue Daiyun?

10. Why did Yue Daiyun object to Lao Tang's brother's wife?

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