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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. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?
(a) It must represent 80% of the owner's wealth.
(b) It could not be rented or resold.
(c) It must be purchased from the Communist party.
(d) It must represent the owner's only holding.

2. What does it mean to "draw a line"?
(a) To make one's political position clear.
(b) To align one's self with another person.
(c) To strengthen a common bond.
(d) To separate one's self from a suspect person.

3. What is the "white and expert way"?
(a) Clarity of thought.
(b) Political ideals.
(c) Democratic ideas.
(d) Academic or technical expertise.

4. What song did Yue Daiyun's brother use to comfort her while she was being criticized?
(a) "La Marseille."
(b) "My Old Kentucky Home."
(c) "I Dream of Jeannie."
(d) "La Donna est Mobile."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chinese legend, why does a baby smile for the first time?

3. What policy sent Yue Daiyun to the countryside in 1965?

4. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?

5. What term was given to those whose parents were landlords?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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