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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 Chairman Mao declare in 1966 that intellectuals must undergo?

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

3. Why was Yue Daiyun disheartened by her first teaching assignment at the cadre school in Liyuzhou?

4. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?

5. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

5. Why were admission examinations eliminated from the requirements for university entrance in 1970?

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

7. What difficulties did Tang Dan encounter during her time with the military?

8. Why had Lao Tang not left Liang Xiao?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What differences do you see between the administration of sanctions in China and in other countries? Who determines who is at fault? Who determines the punishment? What effect do those differences have on Yue Daiyun and her family?

Essay Topic 2

Many philosophies are brought under condemnation during Yue Daiyun's experiences. These include rightism, ultra-rightism, ultra-leftism, capitalism, objectivism, subjectivism, and others. Select two of these philosophies to compare and contrast.

Essay Topic 3

Write a brief explanatory history of the Gang of Four and the Cultural Revolution as seen through Yue Daiyun's eyes.

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