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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why were friendship bonds more likely at the cadre school than at Beida?
(a) Everyone was on equal footing.
(b) No one knew another's salary.
(c) There was more time in the relaxed atmosphere.
(d) Competition for positions was secret.

5. What was Yue Daiyun's diet during her first months in Liyuzhou?
(a) Vegetables and fresh fish.
(b) Meat, rice, and vegetables.
(c) Rice and vegetables.
(d) Rice and soybean oil soup.

6. Why were qualified teachers hesitant to offer lecture courses upon returning to Beida?
(a) They feared being labeled "bourgeois academic authorites."
(b) They feared the students would not comprehend their lectures.
(c) They feared being unpopular with students.
(d) They feared having their ignorance revealed.

7. How was Beida preparing for nuclear war in 1972?
(a) Establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
(b) Designing nuclear weapons.
(c) Digging air raid shelters.
(d) Hiding a nuclear arsenal.

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

9. What was Yue Daiyun required to do for six months of the year in 1975?
(a) Work in the library.
(b) Build houses.
(c) Help with the wheat harvest.
(d) Make bricks.

10. Why was Yue Daiyun able to save money during her months in Liyuzhou?
(a) She received retroactive pay.
(b) She was a good money manager.
(c) There was nothing available to buy.
(d) She earned her regular salary, but was not allowed to spend it.

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

12. What did Lao Tang and Lao Li promise each other to do if they were arrested?
(a) Remain loyal to Communism.
(b) Never conceal the truth.
(c) Never reveal their conversations.
(d) Remain loyal to each other.

13. What choice was Yue Daiyun given in 1969?
(a) To work in the library or resume teaching classes.
(b) To go to the countryside or work in the propaganda committee.
(c) To remain on campus or return to the countryside.
(d) To supervise students in the countryside or be under house arrest.

14. What did the famous "32 Cadres and Teachers" poster assert?
(a) That teachers and students must unite.
(b) That Jinggang Mountain was in error.
(c) That Jinggang Mountain was correct.
(d) That Nie Yuanzi was correct.

15. Why was Yue Daiyun encouraged about the teachers at the cadre school in Liyuzhou?
(a) They were more cooperative with one another.
(b) They were better educated.
(c) They were older and more stable.
(d) They were less arrogant and more willing to learn from their students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Lao Tang shocked as he studied Lin Biao's life?

2. How did Yue Daiyun accidentally injure Lao Tang?

3. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?

4. What did the criminal activities of Lin Liguo and the defection of Lin Biao teach Yue Dainyun?

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

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