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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. Why does Pearl not get along well with the boarders in her childhood home?
(a) They think she speaks with an English accent.
(b) They are suspicious of Pearl's reasons for returning to China.
(c) They think she is too bourgeois.
(d) They think she believes herself to be superior to them.

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

3. Where does Tao's mother send Joy when she begins contractions?
(a) The birthing house.
(b) No where.
(c) The next-door neighbor's house who is a midwife.
(d) The hospital in the closest city.

4. What does Tao say is the reason for the water buffalo's suffering?
(a) There are no veterinarians in the area.
(b) Punishment for deeds in a past life.
(c) He says there is no reason; it just is.
(d) The water buffalo won't let a human treat its wounds.

5. Who is fed first when there is food?
(a) The most productive.
(b) The elderly.
(c) The youngest.
(d) Males.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the government promise to women who give birth?

2. What work does Pearl do?

3. What has Tao's family managed to do to stave off starving?

4. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?

5. What does Pearl sometimes sneak and keep?

(see the answer key)

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