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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?
(a) New Beida and Jinggang Mountain.
(b) Students and teachers.
(c) Administrators and Nie Yuanzi.
(d) Jinggang Mountain and Nie Yuanzi.

2. Where were 21 people killed in campus warfare?
(a) Beida.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Hanzhong.

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

4. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?
(a) Confucius was a rightist.
(b) Confucius advocated the subjugation of women.
(c) Confucius advocated capitalism.
(d) Confucius taught individualism.

5. Which of Yue Daiyun's family members belonged to the Jinggang Mountain Corps?
(a) Lao Tang.
(b) Tang Shuang.
(c) Yue Daiyun.
(d) Tang Dan.

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

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

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

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

10. What decision made in 1966 does Yue Daiyun come to deeply regret?
(a) She had an abortion.
(b) She decided never to have another child.
(c) She had a second child.
(d) She became pregnant.

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

12. Why was Tang Dan disillusioned with her work in Dedu county?
(a) Money had been embezzled.
(b) Peasants had been mistreated.
(c) Mismanagement had caused poor crop yields.
(d) Her efforts had been unappreciated.

13. What was "night fighting?"
(a) Group criticism.
(b) Using the latrines at night when ill.
(c) Struggle groups debating political issues.
(d) Working after dark at jobs that required less light.

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

15. What natural disaster hit China in July of 1976?
(a) A flood.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) Wildfires.
(d) A volcanic eruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Yue Daiyun's diet during her first months in Liyuzhou?

2. Why was Yue Daiyun encouraged about the teachers at the cadre school in Liyuzhou?

3. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?

4. What did Lao Tang and Lao Li promise each other to do if they were arrested?

5. What was the Red Guard?

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