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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: The Rabbit Dodges: Chapters 7 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joy witness as a result of the woman's suicide?
(a) The village pelting someone with rotten fruit.
(b) Her first public criticism.
(c) A whipping.
(d) A hanging.

2. When is the last time Pearl has been in China?
(a) When she is 9.
(b) When she is 28.
(c) As a teenager.
(d) When she is 40.

3. What assignment is Joy given?
(a) Running the village nursery.
(b) That of arranging a propaganda play for the village about the Marriage Law.
(c) Giving English lessons to the village children.
(d) Giving music lessons to the village children.

4. How does a woman kill herself one day?
(a) Throwing herself down a well.
(b) Drinking poison.
(c) Falling on an old rusty sword unearthed in the field.
(d) Throwing herself in the way of the hay cutter.

5. Why does Joy think she will never leave the commune?
(a) She is afraid to leave it.
(b) She loves Tao.
(c) She loves farming.
(d) Her father has to live there for the rest of his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Kumei from the age of five on?

2. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?

3. What does Pearl think she would have done if life had treated her a bit more kindly?

4. What is the significance of the book, "Shanghai Girls"?

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

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