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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?
(a) Actions were often assigned from the top rather than initiated at the bottom.
(b) Disrespect and disobedience become commonplace.
(c) Actions were assigned, but seldom carried out.
(d) Actions were often initiated at the bottom rather than assigned from the top.

2. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?
(a) Beida.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Quanzhou.
(d) Tiananmen Square.

3. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?
(a) It encouraged individuality.
(b) It encouraged slavish submission.
(c) It encouraged denunciation of public figures.
(d) It encouraged constant self-criticism.

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

5. Who was Ma Mingzhen?
(a) Lin Liguo's wife.
(b) Lin Biao's mistress.
(c) A party leader at Beida.
(d) A chemical worker who had been arrested and shot for speaking critically of Lin Biao.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?

2. What disillusioned Yue Daiyun on her trip to the Soviet Union?

3. What caused the famine in Zhaitang during the autumn of 1959?

4. How did Lao Shi die?

5. What was the Red Guard?

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