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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. Why did Lao Tang's photograph with Liang Xiao members become a problem?

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

3. What did Lao Tang's mother send to augment his diet?

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

5. What was unusual about the student revolutionary movement at Beida?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was unusual about the arrival of the first students at the cadre school being established in Liyuzhou?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At some points, it was considered a criminal activity to feel pity or compassion for anyone who had been established as an enemy of the state. Analyze the purpose and results of this attitude toward kindness for wrongdoers.

Essay Topic 2

What differences do you see between the administration of sanctions in China and in other countries? Who determines who is at fault? Who determines the punishment? What effect do those differences have on Yue Daiyun and her family?

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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