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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Durig the summer of 1968, how many students were killed by New Beida students?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

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

9. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?
(a) Actions were assigned, but seldom carried out.
(b) Disrespect and disobedience become commonplace.
(c) Actions were often initiated at the bottom rather than assigned from the top.
(d) Actions were often assigned from the top rather than initiated at the bottom.

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

11. What did the criminal activities of Lin Liguo and the defection of Lin Biao teach Yue Dainyun?
(a) She saw that corruption permeated the whole system.
(b) She saw that isolated instances of corruption were inevitable.
(c) She saw that isolated instances of corruption were avoidable.
(d) She saw that there were few isolated instances of corruption.

12. Why had Yue Daiyun not protested when truckloads of students set out in a downpour?
(a) She had confidence in the leader of their group.
(b) She was sure the trip would be safe.
(c) She was afraid of being criticized yet again.
(d) It would have seemed disobedient to Chairman Mao's teachings about courage.

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

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

15. 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) Search faculty houses for capitalist possessions.
(d) Reveal counter-revolutionary statements in magazines and newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ma Mingzhen?

2. Why did Yue Dainyun always dislike Confucianism?

3. What pseudonym had Lao Tang and Lao Li, his friend, used to publish articles about Chinese philosophy?

4. What task was Nie Yuanzi given in Liyuqhou?

5. What were the "two erroneous viewpoints" that students were taught to beware of?

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