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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 Chairman Mao refer to Nie Yuanzi?

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

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

4. Who were alleged to be Black Gang members?

5. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Write a brief explanatory history of the Gang of Four and the Cultural Revolution as seen through Yue Daiyun's eyes.

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