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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Tiger Leaps: Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes Pearl elation when she enters China?
(a) She sees Joy's picture on the wall of returning Chinese.
(b) She sees her picture on a poster drawn by Z. G.
(c) She sees Z. G. at the airport.
(d) She talks to someone who has met Joy.

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

4. What does Joy realize are empty fantasies?
(a) Going to college on the East Coast.
(b) Joe's notion of moving to China with Joy.
(c) Finding her real father.
(d) Finding any of her half sisters.

5. To where does Pearl walk?
(a) Her old family home.
(b) The large centrally-located park.
(c) The bus depot.
(d) The train station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has kept Pearl's room exactly as she left it?

2. Who is Z. G.?

3. What causes Joy to question the ways of the village?

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

5. Where does a guard tell Pearl he directed Joy?

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