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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?
(a) Reveal counter-revolutionary statements in magazines and newspapers.
(b) Search faculty houses for capitalist possessions.
(c) Investigate the lives of government officials.
(d) Reveal bourgeois thinking among teachers.

2. How did Nie Yuanzi attempt to flush out the 250 besieged Jinggang Mountain students?
(a) She turned off their electricity.
(b) She sent in tear gas.
(c) She turned off their water supply.
(d) She cut off their food supply.

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

4. What were the "three separations" believed to plague university education?
(a) Separation of the university from China's cultural heritage throughout three centuries.
(b) Separation of the university from business, diplomacy, and international relations.
(c) Separation of the university from worldwide educational networks.
(d) Separation of the university from practice, politics, and manual labor.

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

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

7. What group refused to obey Chairman Mao's directive to continue education?
(a) High school teachers and administrators.
(b) High school and university students.
(c) University teachers.
(d) University administrators.

8. What shocked Yue Daiyun upon her return to Beida?
(a) The campus had been beautified.
(b) The campus was being closed.
(c) There were not enough students to justify continuing the university.
(d) The campus had fallen into disrepair.

9. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?
(a) Actions were assigned, but seldom carried out.
(b) Disrespect and disobedience become commonplace.
(c) Actions were often assigned from the top rather than initiated at the bottom.
(d) Actions were often initiated at the bottom rather than assigned from the top.

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

11. Who were the "5+ Obedient Sheep?"
(a) Overly obedient students.
(b) Rebellious students.
(c) Students with poor grades.
(d) Students who followed the work team's recommendations.

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

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

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

15. Why was depression widespread in 1967?
(a) Revolutionary progress was slow.
(b) Revolutionary ideals had deteriorated into factional fighting.
(c) The peasants were dominating the wealthy.
(d) The rich still dominated the poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?

2. Durig the summer of 1968, how many students were killed by New Beida students?

3. What were the "five-same-thing" teachers to do?

4. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?

5. What natural disaster hit China in July of 1976?

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