China’s Cultural Revolution– Goals and Purpose

A supporter of a policy of revision or modification.

• revolutionary

• cadre

• revisionist

• circumvent

A group of activists in a communist or other revolutionary organization.

• neo-classicist

• revisionist

• cadre

• echelon

A social class, equivalent to the middle or upper middle class.

• cadre

• proletariat

• communist

• bourgeoisie

The Cultural Revolution attempted to impose strict limits on freedom of expression to ensure that culture served the revolution and that 'anti-socialist, poisonous weeds' were eradicated.

• True

• False

Mao had denounced the 'Four Olds'.

Which of the following was NOT one of the 4 olds?

• Old people

• Old Ideas

• Old culture

• Old customs

What do historians argue was Mao’s primary reason for launching the Cultural Revolution?

• To modernise China’s economy

• To improve relations with the USSR

• To reassert his authority over China and the CCP

• To prepare China for war

Why did Mao aim to bypass the CCP bureaucracy during the Cultural Revolution?

• He believed the people were politically inexperienced

• He wanted to strengthen local governments

• He believed party officials had become revisionist and self-serving

• He wanted to reduce the role of ideology

In the Sixteen Points, who were identified as the main force of the Cultural Revolution?

• Party officials and military leaders

• Intellectuals and artists

• Workers, peasants, soldiers and revolutionary youth

• Foreign-trained communists

What were the “persons in authority taking the capitalist road” accused of in the Sixteen Points?

• Supporting foreign intervention

• Betraying socialist ideology

• Promoting peasant revolution

• Defending traditional Chinese culture

Which of the following groups was targeted as 'enemies of the revolution' during the Cultural Revolution?

• Workers

• Intellectuals and teachers

• Red Guards

• Peasants