2. What was the Red Guard?
(a) A department of the army.
(b) A civilian militia.
(c) A group of counter-revolutionary students.
(d) A group of revolutionary students.

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

4. What eventuality most threatens those in power in China?
(a) A foreign takeover.
(b) Public exposure.
(c) The development of an organized group.
(d) A system of information dissemination.

5. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?
(a) Major contenders had been imprisoned.
(b) Urgent directives to promote "big alliances."
(c) Mutual agreement.
(d) Most of the student body had gone.

6. 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.

7. Why did Lin Biao, Chairman Mao's closest ally, decide to flee the country?
(a) He had failed in an assassination attempt.
(b) He had struck a deal with the Soviets.
(c) He was disillusioned with Communism.
(d) He was embezzling money.

8. What is the "red and expert way"?
(a) Sharing scholarly ideals with others.
(b) Scholarly work that serves the goals of politics.
(c) Scholarly work to point out political errors.
(d) Scholarly work for its own sake.

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

10. How were workers and peasants to be portrayed in all acceptable literary work?
(a) As "upwardly mobile."
(b) As "humble, wise, and meek."
(c) As "heroic and noble."
(d) As "tall, valued, and perfect."

11. What privileges did Lao Tang receive as he studied Lin Biao's life?
(a) Secretarial support.
(b) Travel and access to people and information.
(c) Seclusion and quiet.
(d) Luxurious housing.

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

13. What problem added to the difficulties of the second year at the cadre school?
(a) Heavy rain.
(b) Drought.
(c) Wildfires.
(d) Heavy snow.

14. What was Lao Tang's concern after being criticized for his membership in Liang Xiao?
(a) It would reflect badly on his parents.
(b) His children would suffer.
(c) Yue Daiyun would be humiliated.
(d) He would be killed.

15. Why was Yue Diayun not as happy as the students at the prospect of returning to Beijing from the cadre school?
(a) She felt that education in the country was preferable.
(b) She felt that Beida had nothing to offer peasant students.
(c) She felt that great effort had been wasted.
(d) She felt that her family had been happier in the country.