View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How often was Lao Tang allowed to go home while under suspicion?
(a) Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Once every two weeks.
(d) Every weekend.

3. What did Yue Daiyun believe the generation she was teaching had that hers lacked?
(a) Compassion for other students.
(b) Courage to fight for their convictions.
(c) Intelligence to understand the forces at work in society.
(d) Interest in public affairs.

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

5. What was the fate of the peasant university students who had not been given an education?
(a) They were sent to labor in the countryside.
(b) They were accepted for factory work.
(c) They were inducted into the army.
(d) They were given another chance for a university education.

6. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?
(a) Readers would suffer from unattainable ideals.
(b) Readers would distrust the new literature.
(c) Readers would emulate the literary characters.
(d) Readers would lower their personal behavioral standards.

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

8. What honorific assignment did Lao Tang receive in 1973?
(a) He was made a chairman of the cadre school.
(b) He was part of the committee analyzing Lin Biao's materials.
(c) He was named a Confucian scholar.
(d) He was to be part of the "black gang."

9. What task was Nie Yuanzi given in Liyuqhou?
(a) Cutting bamboo into poles.
(b) Tying sheaves to make thatch.
(c) Making bricks from clay.
(d) Carrying buckets of urine.

10. How were students selected for university admission in 1970?
(a) By recommendations from factory or army leaders.
(b) By ability to pay.
(c) By lottery.
(d) By examination.

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

12. In what area was Tang Shuang gifted?
(a) Literature.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

13. Who was Ma Mingzhen?
(a) A chemical worker who had been arrested and shot for speaking critically of Lin Biao.
(b) Lin Liguo's wife.
(c) Lin Biao's mistress.
(d) A party leader at Beida.

14. What was Yue Daiyun's diet during her first months in Liyuzhou?
(a) Rice and vegetables.
(b) Meat, rice, and vegetables.
(c) Rice and soybean oil soup.
(d) Vegetables and fresh fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Lao Tang endangered by the arrest of the Gang of Four?

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

3. What did Chairman Mao declare in 1966 that intellectuals must undergo?

4. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?

5. Why was Yue Diayun not as happy as the students at the prospect of returning to Beijing from the cadre school?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 706 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample