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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. How did night meetings at the commune in Zhaitang attempt to educate the peasants?

2. How were ordinary people to be portrayed in literature considered appropriate during the Four Clean-Ups?

3. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?

4. What physical affliction had Yue Daiyun's father-in-law suffered in her two-year absence?

5. Who was Yue Daiyun's first love?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is the one-month birthday an important event in China?

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

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

10. Why was Yue Daiyun unworried about the criticism she was to face?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the time that is portrayed in this memoir, military and police power were placed in the hands of committees and groups - sometimes self-appointed, as the student groups were. In your essay, discuss the results of these shifts in power.

Essay Topic 2

Many philosophies are brought under condemnation during Yue Daiyun's experiences. These include rightism, ultra-rightism, ultra-leftism, capitalism, objectivism, subjectivism, and others. Select two of these philosophies to compare and contrast.

Essay Topic 3

What differences do you see between the administration of sanctions in China and in other countries? Who determines who is at fault? Who determines the punishment? What effect do those differences have on Yue Daiyun and her family?

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