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

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

3. Why was Yue Daiyun encouraged about the teachers at the cadre school in Liyuzhou?
(a) They were more cooperative with one another.
(b) They were better educated.
(c) They were older and more stable.
(d) They were less arrogant and more willing to learn from their students.

4. What did the famous "32 Cadres and Teachers" poster assert?
(a) That teachers and students must unite.
(b) That Jinggang Mountain was correct.
(c) That Nie Yuanzi was correct.
(d) That Jinggang Mountain was in error.

5. What two groups did Yue Daiyun believe would restore order to China in 1968?
(a) The army and the proleteriat.
(b) The students and the army.
(c) The students and the faculty.
(d) The workers and the campus administrators.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What group refused to obey Chairman Mao's directive to continue education?

3. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why had Lao Tang not left Liang Xiao?

6. What was Lao Tang's initial impression of Jiang Qing?

7. How did those being interrogated about disparaging remarks against Jiang Qing manage to keep from implicating their family and friends?

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

9. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

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

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