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

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

3. What is a cadre?
(a) A revolutionary trainee.
(b) An informant.
(c) A revolutionary trainer.
(d) A prisoner.

4. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?
(a) Drawing water.
(b) Preparing breakfast for the group.
(c) Collecting clay to mix with coal for the fire.
(d) Collecting rocks to build a dam.

5. What were the "triple evils" to be eliminated in 1957?
(a) Sectarianism, bureaucratism, and socialism.
(b) Bureaucratism, cretinism, and subjectivism.
(c) Objectivism, Confucianism, and sectarianism.
(d) Subjectivism, sectarianism, and bureaucratism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?

2. What unexpected speaker came to the meeting on July 22 during the student struggles?

3. How was Lao Wei exonerated from the rightist charge against him?

4. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where had the idea of parading enemies come from?

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

4. Why is the one-month birthday an important event in China?

5. What is the message of Yue Daiyun's poem "To the Storm"?

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

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

8. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

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

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