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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupted Yue Daiyun's celebration of her son's one-month birthday?
(a) A meeting at which her husband was to be criticized.
(b) A meeting at which her husband was to be honored.
(c) A meeting at which she was to be honored.
(d) A meeting at which she was to be criticized.

2. What challenging assignment was Yue Daiyun given upon her return to teaching?
(a) Teaching modern literature.
(b) Explicating Tang dynasty literature.
(c) Developing a political writing course.
(d) Teaching Chinese to foreign students.

3. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?
(a) Mismanagement.
(b) Drought.
(c) Refusal of the peasant workers to cooperate.
(d) Lack of seeds.

4. How many people in Beida had been declared rightists in 1958?
(a) Three hundred faculty members.
(b) Five hundred students and 100 faculty members.
(c) Seven hundred students.
(d) One hundred students and 500 faculty members.

5. How many people was Yue Daiyun required to identify as rightists?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

6. What was Yue Daiyun's first assigned task at the commune in Zhaitang?
(a) Drawing water.
(b) Collecting rocks to build a dam.
(c) Collecting clay to mix with coal for the fire.
(d) Preparing breakfast for the group.

7. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?
(a) It encouraged disrespect.
(b) It encouraged individual creativity over self-effacement.
(c) It encouraged blind acquiescence.
(d) It encouraged immorality.

8. What effect did the Four Clean-Ups campaign have on Yue Daiyun's thinking?
(a) She felt bewildered.
(b) She was bitterly opposed to the program.
(c) She at last saw her path clearly.
(d) She felt determined to support the program.

9. What does it mean to "draw a line"?
(a) To strengthen a common bond.
(b) To align one's self with another person.
(c) To make one's political position clear.
(d) To separate one's self from a suspect person.

10. Of what did Lao Pan accuse Yue Daiyun?
(a) Disrespect of Communist authority.
(b) Capitalist ideas.
(c) Personal ambition.
(d) Undermining Chairman Mao.

11. Why were many Chinese angry at the U.S. in 1951?
(a) They expected an American invasion.
(b) They disagreed with American democracy.
(c) They were appalled by American selfishness.
(d) They were jealous of American prosperity.

12. What percentage of workers charged as rightists were work units expected to unveil in 1958?
(a) Twenty-five percent.
(b) Ten percent.
(c) Five percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

13. Who were the first enemies of the Communists to be punished by being publicly paraded?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Landlords.
(c) Political figures.
(d) Revolutionaries.

14. What was the religion of the peasant family to whom Yue Daiyun was assigned in Xiaohongmen?
(a) Christian.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Hindi.
(d) Confucian.

15. Whose suspected crimes as an American spy caused Yue Daiyun to be questioned about their friendship?
(a) Gao Zhongyhi.
(b) Lao Gu.
(c) Peng Yuanho.
(d) Robert Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Old Uncle say that he shared food with Yue Daiyun rather than eating it himself?

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

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

4. What necessary tool did the Beida students accuse the work team of failing to employ?

5. What did Lao Tang conclude after being criticized himself?

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