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

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

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

4. What policy sent Yue Daiyun to the countryside in 1965?
(a) The Second Land Reform.
(b) Clean the Class.
(c) The Four Clean-Ups.
(d) The Three Red Banners.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first "To the Storm"?

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

4. Where were the Chinese literature students sent to work?

5. What is the traditional baby gift given by a Chinese maternal grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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