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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. How does Lao Wei advise Yue Daiyun to deal with the cadres?
(a) Point out their errors and mistakes.
(b) Accuse others to them.
(c) Pretend not to notice wrongdoing.
(d) Bribe them with extra work.

2. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?
(a) She wasn't allowed to visit Red Square.
(b) She observed social inequality.
(c) The Chinese visitors were rudely treated.
(d) The Chinese visitors were not considered equals.

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

4. Why was returning to Beijing in 1966 disheartening for Yue Daiyun?
(a) She was surprised at the lack of student enthusiasm.
(b) She was discouraged about her own progress.
(c) She was disillusioned with the system.
(d) She was disappointed at the low production.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was paying workers according to production criticized?

2. What does it mean to "draw a line"?

3. How were landlords punished in the village of Jiangxi during land reform?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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