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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?
(a) Allow freedom of student speech.
(b) Choose leaders by vote.
(c) Accept the salary of a worker.
(d) Self-criticize.

2. What did the Jinggang Mountain Corps want?
(a) To dominate the Red Guard.
(b) To support Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.
(c) To overthrow Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.
(d) To overthrow Chairman Mao.

3. What decision made in 1966 does Yue Daiyun come to deeply regret?
(a) She had an abortion.
(b) She became pregnant.
(c) She decided never to have another child.
(d) She had a second child.

4. What did the criminal activities of Lin Liguo and the defection of Lin Biao teach Yue Dainyun?
(a) She saw that isolated instances of corruption were avoidable.
(b) She saw that corruption permeated the whole system.
(c) She saw that there were few isolated instances of corruption.
(d) She saw that isolated instances of corruption were inevitable.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?

3. How were workers and peasants to be portrayed in all acceptable literary work?

4. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?

5. How was Beida preparing for nuclear war in 1972?

(see the answer key)

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