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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 did Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law insist that the family separate during meals?
(a) She wanted to draw a line between her and Yue Daiyun.
(b) The children were affected by family arguments.
(c) She didn't have time to prepare meals for the whole group.
(d) Lao Tang had been declared a "big black element."

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

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

4. What was the religion of the peasant family to whom Yue Daiyun was assigned in Xiaohongmen?
(a) Confucian.
(b) Christian.
(c) Hindi.
(d) Muslim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the "triple evils" to be eliminated in 1957?

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

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

4. Why did Yue Daiyun refuse expensive wedding gifts?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

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

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