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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the Jinggang Mountain group defend their besieged building while restoring electrical power?
(a) Spraying the New Beida guards with water.
(b) Sprinkling the street with round beans.
(c) Shining flashlights in the attackers' faces.
(d) Firing rocks with slingshots at their attackers.

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

4. What pseudonym had Lao Tang and Lao Li, his friend, used to publish articles about Chinese philosophy?
(a) "Two Concerned Citizens."
(b) "Four Marxist Essayists."
(c) "Three True Believers."
(d) "Confused in Beida."

5. What was seen as the danger in studying new ways of thinking through literature?
(a) Readers might become bored.
(b) Readers might come to believe there's no difference between right and wrong.
(c) Readers might come to sympathize with common people in realistic literature.
(d) Readers might reject Chairman Mao's thinking.

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

7. How did Yue Daiyun accidentally injure Lao Tang?
(a) She hit him with a lamp, not knowing he was there.
(b) She tripped him, and he fell.
(c) She dropped him while carrying him.
(d) She and the children injured his back while carrying him.

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

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

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

11. What honor did Lao Tang receive in 1975?
(a) He was congratulated personally by Chairman Mao.
(b) He was chosen a delegate to the 4th People's Congress.
(c) He was made the head of the research group.
(d) He was awarded a Nobel prize for his research.

12. What two groups did Yue Daiyun believe would restore order to China in 1968?
(a) The workers and the campus administrators.
(b) The army and the proleteriat.
(c) The students and the army.
(d) The students and the faculty.

13. With what did Chairman Mao aim to replace Confucianism?
(a) Intellectualism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Objectivism.
(d) Legalism.

14. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?
(a) Choose leaders by vote.
(b) Allow freedom of student speech.
(c) Accept the salary of a worker.
(d) Self-criticize.

15. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Quanzhou.
(c) Tiananmen Square.
(d) Beida.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?

4. What is the "red and expert way"?

5. In August, 1973, with whom did Chairman Mao link the defection of Lin Biao?

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