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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Dog Grins: Chapters 14 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job is Pearl given?
(a) Cook.
(b) Laundress.
(c) Tailor.
(d) Paper collector.

2. What has happened to the women in the commune?
(a) They have been forced to bear more children for the cause.
(b) They have been forced into arranged marriages.
(c) They have been emaciated from their marriages.
(d) They have been sent to other villages that needed help.

3. What has Pearl maintained in Hong Kong?
(a) A friendship with someone she knew as a young child.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A deposit box with her American passport.
(d) Illegal contacts.

4. Who are the narrator(s) in "Dreams of Joy"?
(a) Joy and Pearl.
(b) Sam and Joy.
(c) Joy and Joe.
(d) Pearl and an unknown character.

5. What is the problem with planting wheat?
(a) The mice eat too much of it.
(b) The soil is not right for wheat.
(c) The birds eat too much of it.
(d) The high humidity spoils wheat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the harvesters leave standing?

3. What has Auntie Hu managed to do despite the new governmental controls?

4. Why did Joy's real father paint portraits of Joy's mother and aunt?

5. What does the government insist the sparrows do?

(see the answer key)

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