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

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 survivors to tell what happened.
(d) He wanted the conspirators imprisoned.

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

3. What did Chairman Mao declare in 1966 that intellectuals must undergo?
(a) Education of peasants, workers, and soldiers.
(b) Punishment by incarceration.
(c) Reeducation by peasants, workers, and soldiers.
(d) Ostracization by peasants, workers, and soldiers.

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

5. Why was Lao Tang endangered by the arrest of the Gang of Four?
(a) The Gang of Four had supported him and they were now imprisoned.
(b) The Gang of Four had turned against him.
(c) The Gang of Four had been Lao Tang's only supporters.
(d) The Gang of Four would identify Lao Tang as a dissident.

6. Why did Lao Tang's photograph with Liang Xiao members become a problem?
(a) He was smiling at a time of great disaster.
(b) He was photographed in a bad light.
(c) He was associated with a group held responsible for the disaster.
(d) He was harsh and unfriendly looking.

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

8. How did Yue Daiyun feel about menial labor in Liyuzhou?
(a) It was demeaning and exhausting.
(b) It was easy and pleasant.
(c) It was exhilerating and strengthening.
(d) It was satisfying and refreshing.

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

10. 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 her family had been happier in the country.
(c) She felt that Beida had nothing to offer peasant students.
(d) She felt that great effort had been wasted.

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

12. What were students assigned to do in the winter at the cadre school, in the absence of books?
(a) Write novels.
(b) Read newspaper articles out loud.
(c) Compose poetry.
(d) Self-criticize.

13. What was Yue Daiyun's first work assignment in Liyuzhou after their housing was constructed?
(a) Planting rice.
(b) Cooking for the group.
(c) Working as a laundress.
(d) Making bricks.

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

15. What did Tang Dan want to do for the Jinggang Mountain students?
(a) Fight their final battle with them.
(b) Help New Beida to overcome them.
(c) Continue to bring food to them.
(d) Persuade them to surrender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem added to the difficulties of the second year at the cadre school?

2. Which of Yue Daiyun's family members belonged to the Jinggang Mountain Corps?

3. Why were the students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou not enthused about their prospects there?

4. What were the "three separations" believed to plague university education?

5. What was the fate of the peasant university students who had not been given an education?

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