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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem added to the difficulties of the second year at the cadre school?
(a) Heavy rain.
(b) Heavy snow.
(c) Wildfires.
(d) Drought.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Which family member was sent to a military farm in Dedu county?
(a) Lao Tang.
(b) Tang Shuang.
(c) Yue Daiyun.
(d) Tang Dan.

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

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

10. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?
(a) It encouraged constant self-criticism.
(b) It encouraged individuality.
(c) It encouraged slavish submission.
(d) It encouraged denunciation of public figures.

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

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

13. What were the "three separations" believed to plague university education?
(a) Separation of the university from practice, politics, and manual labor.
(b) Separation of the university from worldwide educational networks.
(c) Separation of the university from business, diplomacy, and international relations.
(d) Separation of the university from China's cultural heritage throughout three centuries.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What honorific assignment did Lao Tang receive in 1973?

2. What did Nie Yuanzi claim to believe in but refused to do?

3. How were students selected for university admission in 1970?

4. In Chinese belief, what do physical cataclysms often foretell?

5. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?

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