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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What choice was Yue Daiyun given in 1969?

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

3. What privileges did Lao Tang receive as he studied Lin Biao's life?

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

5. Why was Lao Tang shocked as he studied Lin Biao's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many times Yue Daiyun decides that her own conscience must be ignored in favor of the Party line of thinking. In your essay, give examples of this decision and its results in her life. What happens when the individual completely subverts his will for what he believes to be the collective good?

Essay Topic 2

Yue Daiyun had mixed feelings regarding her time spent working with the peasants in the countryside, believing that there were advantages and disadvantages for her and for the students who were required to undertake difficult, dangerous, or menial work. Discuss the benefits and costs of taking her away from her university tasks to make bricks or grind cornmeal.

Essay Topic 3

Public displays as a form of punishment became common during the Cultural Revolution. Caps, arm bands, clothing of specific colors, cardboard placards, and the "airplane position" were all used as public humiliation. Discuss the purpose and effect of these punishments as compared with fines or imprisonment as punishment.

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