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

2. What does Pearl think she would have done if life had treated her a bit more kindly?
(a) Had several of her own children.
(b) Found Joy and gotten out of China already.
(c) Married a young, handsome professor like Dun.
(d) Lived to a ripe old age in the Shanghai of her youth.

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

4. What has happened to Kumei from the age of five on?
(a) She has had terrible nightmares.
(b) She has terrible, almost-daily headaches.
(c) She is raped nightly from her husband in an arranged marriage.
(d) She has had aspirations of becoming an artist.

5. Who is waiting for Pearl in her bedroom?
(a) No one.
(b) Dun.
(c) Joy.
(d) Z. G.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the brigade leader continue to expect?

2. Where does Z. G. say it is time to go?

3. What stage of starvation are the peasants entering?

4. What does Joy allow Pearl to do?

5. Who is Auntie Hu?

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