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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 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 supported him and they were now imprisoned.
(c) The Gang of Four had turned against him.
(d) The Gang of Four had been Lao Tang's only supporters.

2. What was the fate of the peasant university students who had not been given an education?
(a) They were inducted into the army.
(b) They were given another chance for a university education.
(c) They were accepted for factory work.
(d) They were sent to labor in the countryside.

3. Why did Yue Daiyun and Lao Tang look forward to peasant life continuing?
(a) They were away from the tribulations in the city.
(b) They liked the diet of the peasants.
(c) They enjoyed the company of the peasants.
(d) They felt themselves growing physically stronger.

4. What pseudonym had Lao Tang and Lao Li, his friend, used to publish articles about Chinese philosophy?
(a) "Three True Believers."
(b) "Confused in Beida."
(c) "Two Concerned Citizens."
(d) "Four Marxist Essayists."

5. What was seen as the danger in studying new ways of thinking through literature?
(a) Readers might come to believe there's no difference between right and wrong.
(b) Readers might reject Chairman Mao's thinking.
(c) Readers might become bored.
(d) Readers might come to sympathize with common people in realistic literature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were 21 people killed in campus warfare?

3. Who were the "5+ Obedient Sheep?"

4. Who was Ma Mingzhen?

5. What was Yue Daiyun's first work assignment in Liyuzhou after their housing was constructed?

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. What was Liang Xiao? What was its purpose?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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