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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Zhou Enlai not order the helicopter carrying Lin Biao's co-conspirators shot down?
(a) He was part of the conspiracy himself.
(b) He sympathized with Lin Biao.
(c) He wanted the conspirators imprisoned.
(d) He wanted survivors to tell what happened.

2. Where did Yue Daiyun teach during 1973?
(a) In the offices of the Hebei Daily newspaper.
(b) She was not allowed to teach.
(c) In Beida.
(d) In the cadre school.

3. What was the fate of the peasant university students who had not been given an education?
(a) They were accepted for factory work.
(b) They were sent to labor in the countryside.
(c) They were inducted into the army.
(d) They were given another chance for a university education.

4. What did the Jinggang Mountain Corps want?
(a) To support Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.
(b) To dominate the Red Guard.
(c) To overthrow Chairman Mao.
(d) To overthrow Nie Yuanzi's leadership of Beida.

5. What was Yue Daiyun's favorite pastime while she wandered in the mountains of Zhaitang?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Calisthenics.
(c) Singing.
(d) Sketching.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What decision made in 1966 does Yue Daiyun come to deeply regret?

3. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?

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

5. What was meant by saying that Nie Yuanzi could "touch heaven"?

(see the answer key)

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