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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 was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?
(a) For condemning Communist policies.
(b) For trying to leave China.
(c) For condemning Chairman Mao.
(d) For listening to foreign radio stations.

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

3. What should a good Communist always refuse to a class enemy, according to what Yue Daiyun was taught?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Financial assistance.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Forgiveness.

4. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?
(a) Refusal of the peasant workers to cooperate.
(b) Mismanagement.
(c) Drought.
(d) Lack of seeds.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?

4. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Why was Yue Daiyun unworried about the criticism she was to face?

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

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

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

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

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