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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. What is an "ayi?"

2. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?

3. What work assignment did Yue Daiyun receive upon returning to Beida after her two-year absence?

4. Who was Yue Daiyun's first love?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the difference between the "white and expert way" and the "red and expert way."

Essay Topic 2

Yue Daiyun had first hand experience with the benefits of individual ownership and responsibility on productivity as she watched famines that were intensified by collective errors and peasants who had no incentives to increase their work output. Analyze the effect of individual ownership and accountability on workers and society as a whole.

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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