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

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

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

4. 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.

5. What materials did Yue Daiyun have to construct housing in Liyuzhou?
(a) Wood and clay.
(b) Bricks and mortar.
(c) Clay and straw.
(d) Bamboo and thatch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often was Lao Tang allowed to go home while under suspicion?

2. What was the Red Guard?

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

4. What did Yue Daiyun believe the generation she was teaching had that hers lacked?

5. What were students assigned to do in the winter at the cadre school, in the absence of books?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Yue Daiyun apprehensive when Tang Dan decided to go into the army?

2. How was Tang Dan allowed as a child to help the Jinggang Mountain group?

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

4. What were the most emphatic new directives from Chairman Mao as the conflicts escalated?

5. Why was the building of permanent housing the most pressing task when Yue Daiyun's group arrived at Liyuzhou?

6. Why were Chairman Mao's instructions to unite and return to classes ineffective?

7. Why was the educational level of college age youth lower in 1970?

8. What astonished Lao Tang more than evidence of Lin Biao's reactionary viewpoint?

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

10. What did the student Red Guards at Beida dispute about Nie Yuanzi's policies?

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