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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?

3. What is the "white and expert way"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were the landlords treated by the local Communist Party committee?

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

4. Why did the famine of 1959 change Yue Daiyun's opinion of the Communist Party?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Yue Daiyun describes her opinion about Stalin and her feelings at his death. In your essay, compare and contrast her thoughts about him with the opinion of Western civilization. Why is there such a difference?

Essay Topic 2

During Yue Daiyun's time as a professor of literature during the Cultural Revolution, it was criminal to glorify "middle characters" in fiction. Middle characters are ordinary people with flaws as well as good characteristics. Analyze and evaluate the purpose for this decision and its effect on readers, according to Yue Daiyun.

Essay Topic 3

At some points, it was considered a criminal activity to feel pity or compassion for anyone who had been established as an enemy of the state. Analyze the purpose and results of this attitude toward kindness for wrongdoers.

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