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

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

3. Alongside whom does Pearl work?
(a) Yong and Su-Lee.
(b) Z. G. and Joy.
(c) Tao and Yong.
(d) Joy and Tao.

4. What does Tao not do after Joy gives birth?
(a) Name the child.
(b) Come to look at his child.
(c) Talk to the doctor about Joy's condition.
(d) Help Joy recover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Joy boil the shoes Pearl sends her?

2. What stage of starvation are the peasants entering?

3. According to Auntie Hu, how can Pearl reclaim many of her old belongings?

4. What do Joy and Z. G. do in Canton?

5. Why does Z. G. arrange for Joy and Tao to have art lessons together?

(see the answer key)

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