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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 health problem had complicated Yue Daiyun's pregnancy?
(a) Swollen ankles.
(b) Morning sickness.
(c) High blood pressure.
(d) Low blood pressure.

2. What physical difficulty was brought on for Yue Daiyun and others by the famine in Zhaitang?
(a) Vomiting.
(b) Constipation.
(c) Fainting.
(d) Diarrhea.

3. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?
(a) Conscience is the voice of evil.
(b) The Party would punish such thinking.
(c) The Party had greater wisdom.
(d) The individual was always wrong.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What political decision did Yue Daiyun make upon her return to Beida after her two-year absence?

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

4. What first shook Yue Daiyun's faith in the Communist party?

5. Why was returning to Beijing in 1966 disheartening for Yue Daiyun?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the rationale for sending Chinese literature students to work in the mines?

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

4. How was Yue Daiyun used during the Four Clean-Ups campaign in 1965?

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

6. What is the difference between one who is an "alien class element" and one who is a "counter-revolutionary"?

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

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. Where had the idea of parading enemies come from?

10. What is the "theory of revolutionary inheritance"?

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