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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 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.

2. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?
(a) Cutting stencils for supplementary materials.
(b) Working as a librarian.
(c) Writing commentaries on poems of the Tang dynasty.
(d) Teaching first-year students in literary history.

3. How does the bride approach her husband's home in Chinese tradition?
(a) She walks alone.
(b) She is carried there.
(c) She walks with her groom.
(d) She walks with her relatives.

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

5. Whose suspected crimes as an American spy caused Yue Daiyun to be questioned about their friendship?
(a) Lao Gu.
(b) Robert Winter.
(c) Gao Zhongyhi.
(d) Peng Yuanho.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?

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

4. How did Chairman Mao refer to Nie Yuanzi?

5. How many people was Yue Daiyun required to identify as rightists?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

9. 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?

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

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