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

2. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?
(a) It encouraged immorality.
(b) It encouraged disrespect.
(c) It encouraged individual creativity over self-effacement.
(d) It encouraged blind acquiescence.

3. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?
(a) Staying up all night talking with Yue Daiyun.
(b) Killing frogs who were interrupting the music.
(c) Supporting rightist teachers.
(d) Teaching capitalist ideas.

4. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?
(a) "Grand."
(b) "Small."
(c) "Son."
(d) "Dear."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law insist that the family separate during meals?

2. What health problem had complicated Yue Daiyun's pregnancy?

3. Why did Yue Daiyun relate to her sister-in-law's father?

4. What physical affliction had Yue Daiyun's father-in-law suffered in her two-year absence?

5. What political decision did Yue Daiyun make upon her return to Beida after her two-year absence?

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. Why had Yue Daiyun's earlier visit to the Soviet Union been disillusioning?

4. What is the "theory of revolutionary inheritance"?

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

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

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

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

9. How did the peasants react to the decision to distribute work points evenly, with eight each day for women and ten per day for men?

10. How were the landlords treated by the local Communist Party committee?

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