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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 was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Sketching.
(c) Singing.
(d) Calisthenics.

2. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Capitalist ideas.
(b) Undermining Chairman Mao.
(c) Personal ambition.
(d) Disrespect of Communist authority.

3. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?
(a) She had taught students that the Three Red Banners were incorrect.
(b) She had praised a student essay that was critical of the system.
(c) She had made a poster criticizing the Four Clean-Ups.
(d) She had written an essay that was critical of the system.

4. What unexpected speaker came to the meeting on July 22 during the student struggles?
(a) Chairman Mao.
(b) Tao Zhu.
(c) Jiang Qing.
(d) Mao Anqing.

5. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?
(a) Her students were openly hostile to her.
(b) She became ill and spent the time recuperating.
(c) Her baby didn't remember her, and she was a stranger on campus.
(d) She had to face charges and criticism at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lao Shi die?

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

3. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?

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

5. How were landlords punished in the village of Jiangxi during land reform?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

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

6. Why was Yue Daiyun to be criticized while on maternity leave?

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

8. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

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

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

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