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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 sister-in-law's father imprisoned?

2. Why was the poet Lin Zhao executed?

3. Why was Yue Daiyun relieved of her teaching duties in 1965?

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

5. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Public displays as a form of punishment became common during the Cultural Revolution. Caps, arm bands, clothing of specific colors, cardboard placards, and the "airplane position" were all used as public humiliation. Discuss the purpose and effect of these punishments as compared with fines or imprisonment as punishment.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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