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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 honor did Lao Tang receive in 1975?

2. Why was Lao Tang endangered by the arrest of the Gang of Four?

3. What was Yue Daiyun's first work assignment in Liyuzhou after their housing was constructed?

4. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?

5. In Chinese belief, what do physical cataclysms often foretell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun find it difficult to teach a course about the struggle between bourgeois and proletarian literary theory?

2. What were the most emphatic new directives from Chairman Mao as the conflicts escalated?

3. Why had Lao Tang not left Liang Xiao?

4. Why was schistosomiasis a danger for those working in rice paddies?

5. What was unusual about the arrival of the first students at the cadre school being established in Liyuzhou?

6. Why was Yue Daiyun stunned and unhappy at the new student orientation at the cadre school?

7. Why was Yue Daiyun apprehensive when Tang Dan decided to go into the army?

8. Why were members of the intellectual community resentful of Liang Xiao?

9. Why were Chairman Mao's instructions to unite and return to classes ineffective?

10. Why was the educational level of college age youth lower in 1970?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you believe that Yue Daiyun's basic political philosophy changed greatly during the years she has described in her story? Give reasons, quotations, and examples to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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