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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. With what did Chairman Mao aim to replace Confucianism?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Legalism.
(c) Objectivism.
(d) Intellectualism.

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

3. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?
(a) He was embezzling money.
(b) He had failed in an assassination attempt.
(c) He was disillusioned with Communism.
(d) He had struck a deal with the Soviets.

4. What was "night fighting?"
(a) Using the latrines at night when ill.
(b) Working after dark at jobs that required less light.
(c) Group criticism.
(d) Struggle groups debating political issues.

5. What did Yue Daiyun believe the generation she was teaching had that hers lacked?
(a) Compassion for other students.
(b) Interest in public affairs.
(c) Courage to fight for their convictions.
(d) Intelligence to understand the forces at work in society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?

2. What honorific assignment did Lao Tang receive in 1973?

3. What did the famous "32 Cadres and Teachers" poster assert?

4. Why was Yue Daiyun encouraged about the teachers at the cadre school in Liyuzhou?

5. What shocked Yue Daiyun upon her return to Beida?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were members of the intellectual community resentful of Liang Xiao?

2. Why was the building of permanent housing the most pressing task when Yue Daiyun's group arrived at Liyuzhou?

3. What was unusual about the arrival of the first students at the cadre school being established in Liyuzhou?

4. Why did Yue Daiyun find it difficult to teach a course about the struggle between bourgeois and proletarian literary theory?

5. How was Tang Dan allowed as a child to help the Jinggang Mountain group?

6. Why was Yue Daiyun stunned and unhappy at the new student orientation at the cadre school?

7. What was Liang Xiao? What was its purpose?

8. Why was the educational level of college age youth lower in 1970?

9. Why did Yue Daiyun believe that bonds were closer at the cadre school than on the Beijing campus of Beida?

10. What astonished Lao Tang more than evidence of Lin Biao's reactionary viewpoint?

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