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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Dog Grins: Chapters 21 - 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tao not do after Joy gives birth?
(a) Name the child.
(b) Help Joy recover.
(c) Come to look at his child.
(d) Talk to the doctor about Joy's condition.

2. What has happened to Kumei from the age of five on?
(a) She has terrible, almost-daily headaches.
(b) She has had aspirations of becoming an artist.
(c) She is raped nightly from her husband in an arranged marriage.
(d) She has had terrible nightmares.

3. What does the commune leader announce that is mandated by the government?
(a) A contest.
(b) A new irrigation system.
(c) A new crop.
(d) A new type of farming.

4. Who is fed first when there is food?
(a) Males.
(b) The elderly.
(c) The youngest.
(d) The most productive.

5. Who is not suspicious of Pearl?
(a) Dun.
(b) Her brother-in-law.
(c) Z. G.
(d) Her old nanny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Joy miserable on the commune?

2. How long has it been since Pearl has moved back into her childhood home?

3. What does the government insist the sparrows do?

4. What are sparrows, rats, insects, and flies considered?

5. Why does Pearl not get along well with the boarders in her childhood home?

(see the answer key)

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