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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the "Reveal Things Thoroughly to the Bottom" Detachment intend to do?
(a) Search faculty houses for capitalist possessions.
(b) Reveal counter-revolutionary statements in magazines and newspapers.
(c) Investigate the lives of government officials.
(d) Reveal bourgeois thinking among teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yue Daiyun and Lao Tang look forward to peasant life continuing?

2. How was Beida preparing for nuclear war in 1972?

3. Who were the "5+ Obedient Sheep?"

4. What shocked Yue Daiyun upon her return to Beida?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the disputes between factions at the university resemble civil war?

2. How did nine-year-old Tang Shuan help the Jinggang Mountain group?

3. Why were admission examinations eliminated from the requirements for university entrance in 1970?

4. Why was Lao Tang uneasy about national recognition of his work with Liang Xiao?

5. What was Liang Xiao? What was its purpose?

6. Why had Lao Tang not left Liang Xiao?

7. Why did Yue Daiyun feel optimistic upon her return to Beida in spite of the dismal condition of the campus?

8. What was unusual about the arrival of the first students at the cadre school being established in Liyuzhou?

9. Why was Yue Daiyun stunned and unhappy at the new student orientation at the cadre school?

10. Why did Yue Daiyun believe that bonds were closer at the cadre school than on the Beijing campus of Beida?

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