View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?
(a) He was rightly criticized.
(b) The Communist party was wrong.
(c) He had been wrongly criticized.
(d) People are unable to control their own fate.

2. What was Yue Daiyun's overriding reaction to her two years as a peasant worker?
(a) Anger.
(b) Resentment at time wasted.
(c) Shame.
(d) Gratitude.

3. How were ordinary people to be portrayed in literature considered appropriate during the Four Clean-Ups?
(a) As villains.
(b) As real people with normal challenges.
(c) As superhuman.
(d) As heroes.

4. What does the name "Xiao" mean in Mandarin Chinese?
(a) "Small."
(b) "Dear."
(c) "Son."
(d) "Grand."

5. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Twenty-five percent.
(d) Five percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many employees at China Information Headquarters were found to be politically untrustworthy during the Four Clean-Ups?

2. What did the students use for hats on the academicians they publicly paraded?

3. Why did Yue Daiyun relate to her sister-in-law's father?

4. How did Lao Shi die?

5. What is an "ayi?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

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

4. Why did Yue Daiyun decide not to object to being considered a rightist?

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

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

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

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

9. Why was Yue Daiyun to be criticized while on maternity leave?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 777 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample