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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Yue Daiyun teach during 1973?

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

4. Where were 21 people killed in campus warfare?

5. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Yue Daiyun feel optimistic upon her return to Beida in spite of the dismal condition of the campus?

8. How did nine-year-old Tang Shuan help the Jinggang Mountain group?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At some points, it was considered a criminal activity to feel pity or compassion for anyone who had been established as an enemy of the state. Analyze the purpose and results of this attitude toward kindness for wrongdoers.

Essay Topic 2

A central argument among the shifting power groups in this memoir is the question of whether democracy is a tool to eventually establish communism, or communism is a tool leading to the eventual establishment of democracy. Discuss the meaning and differences between these two points of view.

Essay Topic 3

Landlords were the most vilified of any group described in this story. Why was their condemnation so universal? What happened to them? To their property?

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