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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. How often was Lao Tang allowed to go home while under suspicion?

2. What were the "five-same-thing" teachers to do?

3. What task was Nie Yuanzi given in Liyuqhou?

4. What were the "three separations" believed to plague university education?

5. What is the "red and expert way"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Yue Daiyun believe that bonds were closer at the cadre school than on the Beijing campus of Beida?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Yue Daiyun had first hand experience with the benefits of individual ownership and responsibility on productivity as she watched famines that were intensified by collective errors and peasants who had no incentives to increase their work output. Analyze the effect of individual ownership and accountability on workers and society as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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