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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 happened for the first time during the June 18th affair?

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

3. How many people was Yue Daiyun required to identify as rightists?

4. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does it mean to "draw a line" between yourself and another person?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. What attracted Yue Daiyun to Lao Tang?

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

Much of Yue Daiyun's philosophy depended on Chairman Mao and her adulation of him and firm belief in his teachings. In your essay, explore her relationship with this leader of her country and how her opinion of him changed and developed as she went through her life experiences.

Essay Topic 2

Several times in this memoir, people were urged to make a confession to things of which they did not believe themselves guilty. In your essay, evaluate the effect of this practice. Why did people make false confessions? What was the benefit? The cost?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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