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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 challenging assignment was Yue Daiyun given upon her return to teaching?
(a) Teaching modern literature.
(b) Developing a political writing course.
(c) Teaching Chinese to foreign students.
(d) Explicating Tang dynasty literature.

2. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?
(a) Distributing underground literature.
(b) Attacking Chairman Mao's policies.
(c) Poor quality poems.
(d) Secret subversive activity.

3. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?
(a) Being forced to criticize others.
(b) Facing criticism as a rightist.
(c) Criticism of Lao Tang's friendship with her.
(d) Realizing that the famine in 1959 was manmade.

4. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?
(a) It led to decreased overall yield.
(b) It was capitalist exploitation.
(c) It was unfair to those who slacked in their work.
(d) It favored those who worked hardest.

5. What did Chairman Mao seem to be encouraging in 1956?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Open criticism of the Communist party.
(c) Capitalism
(d) A move to the right.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a kang?

2. What was Yue Daiyun's assignment during the Four Clean-Ups?

3. What is sent out to announce a baby's one-month anniversary?

4. Why was Yue Daiyun's long-awaited home visit depressing?

5. What necessary tool did the Beida students accuse the work team of failing to employ?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why weren't the peasants reassured by the harsh treatment of their former landlords?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

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