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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 were many Chinese angry at the U.S. in 1951?

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

3. Why would a good Communist mistrust his own conscience?

4. What objection did Communist party members have to the French novel, The Red and the Black?

5. What song did Yue Daiyun's brother use to comfort her while she was being criticized?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why had Yue Daiyun's earlier visit to the Soviet Union been disillusioning?

5. How did the newspaper articles during the Four Clean-Ups confuse Yue Daiyun?

6. Why did Yue Daiyun admire Tang Yongtong?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a brief explanatory history of the Gang of Four and the Cultural Revolution as seen through Yue Daiyun's eyes.

Essay Topic 2

Yue Daiyun had first hand experience with the benefits of individual ownership and responsibility on productivity as she watched famines that were intensified by collective errors and peasants who had no incentives to increase their work output. Analyze the effect of individual ownership and accountability on workers and society as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

Yue Daiyun describes her opinion about Stalin and her feelings at his death. In your essay, compare and contrast her thoughts about him with the opinion of Western civilization. Why is there such a difference?

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