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

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

3. Why was Lao Tang shocked as he studied Lin Biao's life?
(a) Lin Biao had lived a simple, monastic life.
(b) Lin Biao had enjoyed many kinds of bureaucratic privileges.
(c) Lin Biao had believed sincerely in Confucianism.
(d) Lin Biao had never been a Communist.

4. What is the "red and expert way"?
(a) Scholarly work to point out political errors.
(b) Scholarly work for its own sake.
(c) Scholarly work that serves the goals of politics.
(d) Sharing scholarly ideals with others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were 21 people killed in campus warfare?

2. What was the first lesson in self-reliance the new students at the cadre school in Liyuzhou would learn?

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

4. What was Lao Tang's concern after being criticized for his membership in Liang Xiao?

5. Which of Yue Daiyun's family members belonged to the Jinggang Mountain Corps?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What tragedy took place in Hanzhong on a branch campus for the study of applied physics?

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

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

5. Why were the department leaders angry with Yue Daiyun when they offered her the opportunity to assist with educational reforms on campus?

6. What difficulties did Tang Dan encounter during her time with the military?

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

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

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

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

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