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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 has likely happened to the messages Pearl has sent Joy?
(a) She does not think Pearl has sent her any messages.
(b) They are lost somewhere along the way.
(c) They were burned for starting fires.
(d) The censors have confisgated them.

2. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?
(a) For not being properly respectful to him.
(b) For sneaking off with Tao.
(c) For laughing at one of the village elders.
(d) For feeling pride in her performance.

3. For what does Pearl find herself homesick?
(a) Her life as a teenager in Green Dragon Village.
(b) The Shanghai she once knew.
(c) Her home in Los Angeles.
(d) Her home in San Francisco.

4. What requires that every pair of hands work nonstop?
(a) The overseer.
(b) The upcoming festival.
(c) The harvest.
(d) The Great Leap Forward.

5. What do Pearl's housemates say about her when she returns from Auntie Hu's home?
(a) She does not work hard enough.
(b) She is too noisy.
(c) She is too slow.
(d) She is too imperialistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tao not do after Joy gives birth?

2. What assignment is Joy given?

3. Alongside whom does Pearl work?

4. Why is Joy not supposed to be pleased with her performance?

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

(see the answer key)

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