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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Dragon Rises: Chapters 24 - 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has likely happened to the messages Pearl has sent Joy?
(a) They were burned for starting fires.
(b) She does not think Pearl has sent her any messages.
(c) The censors have confisgated them.
(d) They are lost somewhere along the way.

2. What is Tao disgusted with Joy?
(a) Because she wants to go back to America.
(b) Because she wears dresses.
(c) Because of her paintings.
(d) Because she loves a female child.

3. What does the voice over the loudspeaker announce?
(a) Everyone is to gather at the canteen.
(b) Help is needed in the rice paddy.
(c) One of the workers is pinned under the tractor and help is needed.
(d) The district overseer is arriving.

4. Why does Joy accept Tao's offer of marriage?
(a) To retaliate against Pearl's comments about Tao.
(b) To ensure that she will stay in the commune forever.
(c) To spite her father.
(d) Because she loves him deeply.

5. What are Z. G. and Pearl's reaction to what they see on their drive to the commune?
(a) Rage.
(b) Horror at what they are witnessing.
(c) Incredulity at the wasted harvest.
(d) Indifference since it's almost as bad in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pearl say about Tao?

2. Who concocts a plan to get to the commune?

3. What does Joy want to create in the commune center?

4. To what does Joy think the people are blind?

5. What does Pearl say about Tao?

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