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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Dog Grins: Chapters 14 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Joy believe is her biological mother?
(a) May.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Ling.
(d) Suan.

2. Who is Auntie Hu?
(a) An elderly woman who everyone calls Auntie Hu.
(b) Pearl's great aunt.
(c) Pearl's mother's best friend.
(d) May's husband's aunt.

3. On what wall is Joy's picture to be hung?
(a) The wall of disillusioned Americans.
(b) The Great Wall.
(c) The Wailing Wall.
(d) The Comrade Wall of Returned Chinese.

4. Alongside whom does Pearl work?
(a) Z. G. and Joy.
(b) Joy and Tao.
(c) Yong and Su-Lee.
(d) Tao and Yong.

5. What are sparrows, rats, insects, and flies considered?
(a) The most fleeting Karma.
(b) The worst karmic debt.
(c) The four evils.
(d) The four blessings.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Pearl find herself homesick?

2. What happens three months after Z. G. leaves the commune?

3. What are the peasants anxious to do?

4. What mottoes does Joy quote when entering mainland China?

5. To what is Pearl sentenced?

(see the answer key)

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