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

2. What is the precipitating factor for Joy's assignment?
(a) Saying caring for children is the one thing she would hate.
(b) Ping-Li's death.
(c) Being caught in the woods with Tao.
(d) Having come from America.

3. According to Auntie Hu, how can Pearl reclaim many of her old belongings?
(a) By finding all the receipts in the trunks in the attic.
(b) In pawn shops.
(c) By asking the neighbors for help.
(d) By petitioning the government.

4. What does Pearl sometimes sneak and keep?
(a) Newspaper articles about Z. G.
(b) Bits of memorabilia from her childhood in China.
(c) Small pieces of the poster of her and May.
(d) Pieces of material.

5. What happens three months after Z. G. leaves the commune?
(a) He escapes to Hong Kong.
(b) He is sentenced to death.
(c) He is sentenced to prison.
(d) He returns to get Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does Pearl do?

2. To what does Pearl awaken?

3. What do the harvesters leave standing?

4. How does the Chinese government view romance?

5. After whom does Joy name her child?

(see the answer key)

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