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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 does Yue Daiyun do to comfort the injured Lao Shi?
(a) Massages his injured back.
(b) Smuggles cookies to him.
(c) Tells him funny stories.
(d) Prepares buns from white flour.

2. What political decision did Yue Daiyun make upon her return to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) To avoid social issues and concentrate on her studies.
(b) To become a leader in the field of literary history.
(c) To carefully select which social issues should involve her.
(d) To focus on social issues and her studies.

3. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) Identify peasants as heroes in newspaper and magazine articles.
(b) Identify sympathy toward villains in newspaper and magazine articles.
(c) Identify bourgeois thinking in foreign literature.
(d) Identify exemplary thinking in foreign literature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?

2. What was the rationale for putting literature students to hard physical labor?

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

4. What was the religion of the peasant family to whom Yue Daiyun was assigned in Xiaohongmen?

5. What does the name "Lao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

5. 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?

6. What was the job of the sent-down cadres in the countryside?

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

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

9. What is the difference between one who is an "alien class element" and one who is a "counter-revolutionary"?

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

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