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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does May hide the money she sends to Pearl?
(a) She does not send money because it would get stolen.
(b) Sews it into the hems of clothing.
(c) Disguises it as decorative art.
(d) Conceals it into a flap on the inside of the letter.

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

4. Who is Pearl's husband?
(a) Z.G.
(b) She is not married.
(c) Sam.
(d) Joe.

5. For what city does Joy purchase a ticket?
(a) Hu.
(b) Jadong.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Beijing.

6. Why does Pearl not get along well with the boarders in her childhood home?
(a) They are suspicious of Pearl's reasons for returning to China.
(b) They think she is too bourgeois.
(c) They think she speaks with an English accent.
(d) They think she believes herself to be superior to them.

7. According to Auntie Hu, how can Pearl reclaim many of her old belongings?
(a) In pawn shops.
(b) By finding all the receipts in the trunks in the attic.
(c) By asking the neighbors for help.
(d) By petitioning the government.

8. Why does Pearl not leave with Z. G.?
(a) She is in love with a man at the commune.
(b) She hopes to whisk Joy away.
(c) Pearl has been ordered to stay at the commune.
(d) Joy will not leave the commune.

9. What are the peasants anxious to do?
(a) Abandon their marriages.
(b) Marry Tao off to Joy.
(c) Show how read their blood is.
(d) Help Z. G. with his latest gallery show.

10. Why does Joy go to China?
(a) To visit her brother.
(b) To teach English.
(c) To learn about Chinese history.
(d) To find her birth father and true self.

11. What does Pearl think she would have done if life had treated her a bit more kindly?
(a) Had several of her own children.
(b) Found Joy and gotten out of China already.
(c) Married a young, handsome professor like Dun.
(d) Lived to a ripe old age in the Shanghai of her youth.

12. What Zodiac sign can include being tricky?
(a) Dog.
(b) Rat.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Tiger.

13. What does the interrogator force Pearl to do?
(a) Tell him everything she knows about the United States.
(b) Register all her information.
(c) Renounce her Imperialist ways.
(d) Renounce her American citizenship.

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

15. What does Joy tell Joe when she calls him?
(a) She is moving to the East Coast.
(b) She is leaving for Taiwan.
(c) She has to leave him.
(d) She's ready to move to China with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mottoes does Joy quote when entering mainland China?

2. What does Pearl think will be very difficult?

3. What has Pearl maintained in Hong Kong?

4. Who do the Chinese hope to overpower in the future?

5. How many siblings does Tao have?

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