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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. Where were 21 people killed in campus warfare?

2. What were students assigned to do in the winter at the cadre school, in the absence of books?

3. How were students selected for university admission in 1970?

4. In August, 1973, with whom did Chairman Mao link the defection of Lin Biao?

5. Why was Yue Daiyun able to save money during her months in Liyuzhou?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why was Lao Tang uneasy about national recognition of his work with Liang Xiao?

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

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

10. Why was Yue Daiyun stunned and unhappy at the new student orientation at the cadre school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you believe that Yue Daiyun's basic political philosophy changed greatly during the years she has described in her story? Give reasons, quotations, and examples to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

During the time that is portrayed in this memoir, military and police power were placed in the hands of committees and groups - sometimes self-appointed, as the student groups were. In your essay, discuss the results of these shifts in power.

Essay Topic 3

Many of the campaigns described in this book are designated with numbers. These include The Four Clean-Ups, the Three Separations, etc. In your essay, give several examples of these movements and your opinion about why they are numbered in this way.

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