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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Chairman Mao refer to Nie Yuanzi?
(a) As a remnant of the capitalist road.
(b) As an enemy of the people.
(c) As the voice of the future.
(d) As the first Red Banner.

3. Under what conditions were Yue Daiyun's parents allowed to buy property?
(a) It must represent the owner's only holding.
(b) It must represent 80% of the owner's wealth.
(c) It must be purchased from the Communist party.
(d) It could not be rented or resold.

4. How did Yue Daiyun learn to carry water?
(a) On a shoulder pole.
(b) In handheld buckets.
(c) On her head.
(d) In a wheelbarrow.

5. What was the first criticism of Lao Tang at the Beida Youth League Congress?
(a) Killing frogs who were interrupting the music.
(b) Staying up all night talking with Yue Daiyun.
(c) Supporting rightist teachers.
(d) Teaching capitalist ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should a good Communist always refuse to a class enemy, according to what Yue Daiyun was taught?

2. Whose suspected crimes as an American spy caused Yue Daiyun to be questioned about their friendship?

3. What does it mean to "draw a line"?

4. What was Yue Daiyun's job during the famine in Zhaitang?

5. Why was Yue Daiyun's sister-in-law's father imprisoned?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did the famine of 1959 change Yue Daiyun's opinion of the Communist Party?

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

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