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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) Yue Daiyun would be humiliated.
(d) His children would suffer.

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

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

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

9. What was the first lesson in self-reliance the new students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou would learn?
(a) They had to cook their own meals.
(b) They had to build their own living quarters.
(c) They had to walk thirty-five miles to the school.
(d) They had to sew their own clothing.

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

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

12. What were the "two erroneous viewpoints" that students were taught to beware of?
(a) Knowledge is a private possession; education can disregard politics.
(b) Knowledge is a public possession; education is central to politics.
(c) Knowledge is not a possession; education is apolitical.
(d) Knowledge is a possession; education is political.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?

2. How did Yue Daiyun feel about menial labor in Liyuzhou?

3. What was "night fighting?"

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

5. What did Tang Dan want to do for the Jinggang Mountain students?

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