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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 honor did Lao Tang receive in 1975?

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

3. Which two Beida groups refused to give ground and cooperate?

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

5. What caused the violence at Beida to abate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which children were admitted into New Beida?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why were Chairman Mao's instructions to unite and return to classes ineffective?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the difference between the "white and expert way" and the "red and expert way."

Essay Topic 2

At several points in the story, Yue Daiyun and others felt it necessary to "draw a line" between themselves and others. Explain what it means to draw a line. Give examples of how and why this procedure was implemented. Do you think such a procedure is unique to Chinese society during the cultural revolution?

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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