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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Pearl's housemates do when Pearl is out of the house one day?
(a) Searched her bedroom.
(b) Take everything of any value out of Pearl's bedroom.
(c) Destroy Pearl's bedroom.
(d) Give Pearl's bedroom to another woman.

2. Why is Pearl delighted when she returns from work one evening?
(a) To learn a package from Joy has arrived.
(b) To learn that Joy is on her way there.
(c) To find Dun has made her some dinner.
(d) To learn that her travel visa has been approved.

3. To what does Joy think the people are blind?
(a) The way so many of the communes members are dying.
(b) The way the brigade leader lives.
(c) Imminent death.
(d) The government's abuse.

4. What does Kumei admit to Joy?
(a) She's going to sneak away from the village.
(b) She's been sleeping with the brigade leader.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is getting married to Tao's older brother.

5. What are Z. G. and Pearl's reaction to what they see on their drive to the commune?
(a) Incredulity at the wasted harvest.
(b) Rage.
(c) Indifference since it's almost as bad in the city.
(d) Horror at what they are witnessing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the brigade leader say about Yong?

3. What does the brigade leader continue to expect?

4. How is Joy's relationship with her in-laws proceeding?

5. Why does Pearl feel terrible as she harvests various crops?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the commune members are called to the canteen?

2. What crop is to be planted the following year and why is this a poor decision?

3. What does Pearl find has arrived one day after returning from work?

4. What are indications that the famine caused by The Great Leap Forward is progressing horribly?

5. What war has broken out in the commune?

6. What does Dun confess to Pearl, and what is her reaction?

7. What sort of horrors do Z.G. and Pearl see when they are driving to the village?

8. Why does Tao's mother send Joy to the birthing house and what is the outcome?

9. How does Z. G. arrange for the group to get out of China?

10. What do Dun and Pearl race to do and what does Pearl decide?

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