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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 honor did Lao Tang receive in 1975?
(a) He was awarded a Nobel prize for his research.
(b) He was made the head of the research group.
(c) He was chosen a delegate to the 4th People's Congress.
(d) He was congratulated personally by Chairman Mao.

2. Why were friendship bonds more likely at the cadre school than at Beida?
(a) Competition for positions was secret.
(b) No one knew another's salary.
(c) There was more time in the relaxed atmosphere.
(d) Everyone was on equal footing.

3. What was "night fighting?"
(a) Using the latrines at night when ill.
(b) Struggle groups debating political issues.
(c) Group criticism.
(d) Working after dark at jobs that required less light.

4. What was Yue Daiyun's first work assignment in Liyuzhou after their housing was constructed?
(a) Cooking for the group.
(b) Planting rice.
(c) Working as a laundress.
(d) Making bricks.

5. What choice was Yue Daiyun given in 1969?
(a) To go to the countryside or work in the propaganda committee.
(b) To remain on campus or return to the countryside.
(c) To work in the library or resume teaching classes.
(d) To supervise students in the countryside or be under house arrest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did Yue Daiyun believe the elimination of "middle characters" would have on student readers?

2. What materials did Yue Daiyun have to construct housing in Liyuzhou?

3. Who was Ma Mingzhen?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Yue Daiyun find it difficult to teach a course about the struggle between bourgeois and proletarian literary theory?

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

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

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

6. Why did a smiling photo of Lao Tang get him in trouble?

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

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

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

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

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