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

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

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

4. 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 reading newspapers to them.
(d) By turning on radio news broadcasts for them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

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

3. What unexpected speaker came to the meeting on July 22 during the student struggles?

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

5. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean to "draw a line" between yourself and another person?

2. How was Yue Daiyun used during the Four Clean-Ups campaign in 1965?

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

4. What was unusual for Yue Daiyun about the National Day Celebration in 1963?

5. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

6. Why did the famine of 1959 change Yue Daiyun's opinion of the Communist Party?

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

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

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

10. Why did Yue Daiyun decide not to object to being considered a rightist?

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