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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: The Rabbit Dodges: Chapters 7 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Joy not supposed to be pleased with her performance?
(a) An American cannot do something well.
(b) She is an outsider.
(c) She is not supposed to do better than others in the village.
(d) There is no place for pride in China.

2. What does Joy realize are empty fantasies?
(a) Finding her real father.
(b) Joe's notion of moving to China with Joy.
(c) Finding any of her half sisters.
(d) Going to college on the East Coast.

3. What mottoes does Joy quote when entering mainland China?
(a) Some she has read by Chairman Mao.
(b) Those she learns from the Chinese Student Democratic Association.
(c) Some her mother told her.
(d) Some her aunt told her.

4. When is the last time Pearl has been in China?
(a) When she is 9.
(b) As a teenager.
(c) When she is 28.
(d) When she is 40.

5. Who are the narrator(s) in "Dreams of Joy"?
(a) Sam and Joy.
(b) Pearl and an unknown character.
(c) Joy and Joe.
(d) Joy and Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Z. G. arrange for Joy and Tao to have art lessons together?

2. How does a woman kill herself one day?

3. What does Joy witness as a result of the woman's suicide?

4. Who is actually Joy's biological mother?

5. What is the significance of the book, "Shanghai Girls"?

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