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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. Why was Tang Dan disillusioned with her work in Dedu county?
(a) Money had been embezzled.
(b) Peasants had been mistreated.
(c) Mismanagement had caused poor crop yields.
(d) Her efforts had been unappreciated.

2. What were students assigned to do in the winter at the cadre school, in the absence of books?
(a) Read newspaper articles out loud.
(b) Write novels.
(c) Self-criticize.
(d) Compose poetry.

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

4. How did Yue Daiyun accidentally injure Lao Tang?
(a) She hit him with a lamp, not knowing he was there.
(b) She tripped him, and he fell.
(c) She dropped him while carrying him.
(d) She and the children injured his back while carrying him.

5. Why was Lao Tang endangered by the arrest of the Gang of Four?
(a) The Gang of Four would identify Lao Tang as a dissident.
(b) The Gang of Four had turned against him.
(c) The Gang of Four had supported him and they were now imprisoned.
(d) The Gang of Four had been Lao Tang's only supporters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem added to the difficulties of the second year at the cadre school?

2. In Chinese belief, what do physical cataclysms often foretell?

3. Where did the "January seizure of Power" in 1967 take place?

4. Why was "How to be a Good Communist" eventually repudiated?

5. What decision made in 1966 does Yue Daiyun come to deeply regret?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

4. Why were members of the intellectual community resentful of Liang Xiao?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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