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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the government promise to women who give birth?
(a) An experienced midwife.
(b) Extra food rations and cloth.
(c) An experienced doctor.
(d) Their female children will be protected.

2. What do the harvesters leave standing?
(a) Every tenth row for gleaners.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Many uncut rice stalks.
(d) Ten percent of the crop for the local farmers.

3. How will Joy and her baby be sneaked out of the commune?
(a) In a barrel.
(b) In a shroud.
(c) In a coffin.
(d) In the trunk of Z. G.'s car.

4. Who concocts a plan to get to the commune?
(a) Pearl.
(b) Z. G.
(c) Auntie Hu.
(d) Dun.

5. What does Pearl confide to Joy about Dun?
(a) That he is the man she loved when she was a teen before leaving China.
(b) That he is a spy for the United States.
(c) That he has asked Pearl to marry him.
(d) That he is going to America.

6. What war has broken out?
(a) Against the four evils.
(b) In Huayang Province.
(c) Near the border of Russia and Mongolia.
(d) In Taipai Province.

7. What is valued over performance?
(a) Espirit de corps.
(b) Looking busy.
(c) Speed.
(d) Nothing.

8. What does Joy want to create in the commune center?
(a) An art gallery.
(b) A place where people can gather and have fun.
(c) A mural.
(d) A support network.

9. Why does Pearl feel terrible as she harvests various crops?
(a) For tiring out quickly.
(b) For not going very fast.
(c) For not knowing how to cut the harvest.
(d) For ruining so much of it.

10. What is the problem with planting wheat?
(a) The soil is not right for wheat.
(b) The birds eat too much of it.
(c) The high humidity spoils wheat.
(d) The mice eat too much of it.

11. Who does Pearl carry to the car?
(a) Yong.
(b) Kumei.
(c) Ta-Ming.
(d) No one.

12. What does the government insist the sparrows do?
(a) Deface public seating areas.
(b) Ignore the government's war.
(c) Nest in eaves and ruin them.
(d) Devour most of the seeds and grains.

13. What has Tao's family managed to do to stave off starving?
(a) Grow a few mushrooms in the cellar.
(b) Kill a few pigeons.
(c) Hide a cupful of uncooked wheat kernels.
(d) Kill a few rats and mice.

14. What does everyone on the commune worry about concerning the upcoming winter?
(a) The artic winds are supposed to be worse this year.
(b) The winter will be harder than last year.
(c) The snow will be worse than last year.
(d) The ground will get too hard to plow.

15. How does Z. G. get Joy, Tao and Samantha to his car?
(a) A cart.
(b) Dragging them.
(c) Carrying them one by one.
(d) A wheelbarrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many travel permits does Z. G. obtain?

2. Why does Tao insult Joy after she gives birth?

3. How does Joy convince the brigade leader to let her do her project in the commune center?

4. Who does Joy think the most powerful leaders in China are?

5. What does the voice over the loudspeaker announce?

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