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

2. How did Chairman Mao refer to Nie Yuanzi?

3. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?

4. What should a good Communist always refuse to a class enemy, according to what Yue Daiyun was taught?

5. Why were the peasants reluctant to accept the land that they were given during land reform?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

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

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

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

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

8. How was Yue Daiyun used during the Four Clean-Ups campaign in 1965?

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Many times Yue Daiyun decides that her own conscience must be ignored in favor of the Party line of thinking. In your essay, give examples of this decision and its results in her life. What happens when the individual completely subverts his will for what he believes to be the collective good?

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