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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?
(a) Jinggang Mountain and Nie Yuanzi.
(b) New Beida and Jinggang Mountain.
(c) Students and teachers.
(d) Administrators and Nie Yuanzi.

2. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?
(a) Readers would suffer from unattainable ideals.
(b) Readers would emulate the literary characters.
(c) Readers would distrust the new literature.
(d) Readers would lower their personal behavioral standards.

3. What honor did Lao Tang receive in 1975?
(a) He was awarded a Nobel prize for his research.
(b) He was chosen a delegate to the 4th People's Congress.
(c) He was congratulated personally by Chairman Mao.
(d) He was made the head of the research group.

4. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?
(a) Search faculty houses for capitalist possessions.
(b) Reveal counter-revolutionary statements in magazines and newspapers.
(c) Reveal bourgeois thinking among teachers.
(d) Investigate the lives of government officials.

5. Why was Yue Daiyun able to save money during her months in Liyuzhou?
(a) She was a good money manager.
(b) She earned her regular salary, but was not allowed to spend it.
(c) She received retroactive pay.
(d) There was nothing available to buy.

6. Why had Yue Daiyun not protested when truckloads of students set out in a downpour?
(a) She had confidence in the leader of their group.
(b) It would have seemed disobedient to Chairman Mao's teachings about courage.
(c) She was sure the trip would be safe.
(d) She was afraid of being criticized yet again.

7. Where were 21 people killed in campus warfare?
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Hanzhong.
(c) Beida.
(d) Beijing.

8. Why was Lao Tang shocked as he studied Lin Biao's life?
(a) Lin Biao had never been a Communist.
(b) Lin Biao had believed sincerely in Confucianism.
(c) Lin Biao had lived a simple, monastic life.
(d) Lin Biao had enjoyed many kinds of bureaucratic privileges.

9. What task was Nie Yuanzi given in Liyuqhou?
(a) Cutting bamboo into poles.
(b) Tying sheaves to make thatch.
(c) Making bricks from clay.
(d) Carrying buckets of urine.

10. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?
(a) Confucius advocated capitalism.
(b) Confucius advocated the subjugation of women.
(c) Confucius taught individualism.
(d) Confucius was a rightist.

11. Why was Tang Dan disillusioned with her work in Dedu county?
(a) Money had been embezzled.
(b) Mismanagement had caused poor crop yields.
(c) Peasants had been mistreated.
(d) Her efforts had been unappreciated.

12. What did Lao Tang and Lao Li promise each other to do if they were arrested?
(a) Remain loyal to Communism.
(b) Never conceal the truth.
(c) Remain loyal to each other.
(d) Never reveal their conversations.

13. What choice was Yue Daiyun given in 1969?
(a) To remain on campus or return to the countryside.
(b) To supervise students in the countryside or be under house arrest.
(c) To go to the countryside or work in the propaganda committee.
(d) To work in the library or resume teaching classes.

14. In August, 1973, with whom did Chairman Mao link the defection of Lin Biao?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Marx.

15. What was seen as the danger in studying new ways of thinking through literature?
(a) Readers might come to believe there's no difference between right and wrong.
(b) Readers might come to sympathize with common people in realistic literature.
(c) Readers might become bored.
(d) Readers might reject Chairman Mao's thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?

2. Why was Yue Diayun not as happy as the students at the prospect of returning to Beijing from the cadre school?

3. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?

4. What did Lao Tang's mother send to augment his diet?

5. What were the "three separations" believed to plague university education?

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