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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. Why is Joy not supposed to be pleased with her performance?
(a) She is an outsider.
(b) There is no place for pride in China.
(c) An American cannot do something well.
(d) She is not supposed to do better than others in the village.

2. Why does Joy boil the shoes Pearl sends her?
(a) To stretch them.
(b) To kill the mold on them.
(c) To extract the rice paste.
(d) To shrink them.

3. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?
(a) Auntie Hu.
(b) Z. G.'s housekeeper.
(c) Z. G.
(d) Pearl's father.

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

5. Who is Auntie Hu?
(a) An elderly woman who everyone calls Auntie Hu.
(b) Pearl's mother's best friend.
(c) May's husband's aunt.
(d) Pearl's great aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem with planting wheat?

2. In what typeface is the entire Prologue written?

3. To where does Pearl walk?

4. Who does Joy believe is her biological mother?

5. What does Joy realize are empty fantasies?

(see the answer key)

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