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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. What were the "five-same-thing" teachers to do?
(a) Eat, live, sleep, study and reform thoughts with the students.
(b) Eat, live, labor, study, and reform thoughts with the students.
(c) Sleep, study, reform thoughts, eat and compose poetry with the students.
(d) Develop posters, eat, study, reform thoughts, and labor with the students.

2. Why was Yue Daiyun disheartened by her first teaching assignment at the cadre school in Liyuzhou?
(a) She was set up as a good example.
(b) The students were at a low level of preparation.
(c) She was not to be a good example, but a warning.
(d) The students were disinterested and rude.

3. What were the "two erroneous viewpoints" that students were taught to beware of?
(a) Knowledge is a private possession; education can disregard politics.
(b) Knowledge is a possession; education is political.
(c) Knowledge is not a possession; education is apolitical.
(d) Knowledge is a public possession; education is central to politics.

4. For what were Yue Daiyun and Lao Tang condemned?
(a) Both for being leftists.
(b) Both for being rightists.
(c) She for being a rightist; he for being a leftist.
(d) He for being a rightist; she for being a leftist.

5. Why were the students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou not enthused about their prospects there?
(a) They didn't see the purpose of formal education.
(b) There were no competent teachers.
(c) There were no libraries, books, or paper.
(d) There would be no time for study.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Jinggang Mountain group defend their besieged building while restoring electrical power?

2. Where did Yue Daiyun teach during 1973?

3. What did Lao Tang and Lao Li promise each other to do if they were arrested?

4. What choice was Yue Daiyun given in 1969?

5. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were Chairman Mao's instructions to unite and return to classes ineffective?

3. Why did a smiling photo of Lao Tang get him in trouble?

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

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

6. Why were the department leaders angry with Yue Daiyun when they offered her the opportunity to assist with educational reforms on campus?

7. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

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

9. Why had Lao Tang not left Liang Xiao?

10. Why was schistosomiasis a danger for those working in rice paddies?

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