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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. What does Pearl frequently see as she is doing her job as paper collector?
(a) People celebrating Communism.
(b) Posters of she and May.
(c) Propaganda against the United States.
(d) Disabled elderly people begging.

5. How does the Captain of the ship from Hong Kong cheat Joy?
(a) He charges her double for the passage.
(b) He takes half of her money for exchanging her American dollars.
(c) He does not cheat her.
(d) He offers to keep her jewelry safe but never gives it back.

6. Who does May think about finding in China?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her half sister.
(c) Her aunt and uncle.
(d) Z. G.

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

8. Who is chasing Joy from the United States?
(a) No one.
(b) Joe.
(c) May.
(d) Pearl.

9. What is a social campaign aimed to transform China called?
(a) The Hope of the Future.
(b) Leaping into the Future.
(c) China First.
(d) The Great Leap Forward.

10. Where does a guard tell Pearl he directed Joy?
(a) He does not remember.
(b) The missing person's bureau.
(c) The Green Dragon Village.
(d) The Artist Association.

11. What do Pearl's housemates say about her when she returns from Auntie Hu's home?
(a) She does not work hard enough.
(b) She is too noisy.
(c) She is too slow.
(d) She is too imperialistic.

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

13. What does Pearl learn from Z. G.'s servant?
(a) Z. G. has met Joy.
(b) Z. G. has been sent to the countryside to redeem himself.
(c) Z. G. is being honored in Beijing that month.
(d) Joy is not with Z. G.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Joy and her father go?

2. How does a woman kill herself one day?

3. What does Joy do when she finds her father coming out of a meeting?

4. Who is Pearl's husband?

5. Who is not suspicious of Pearl?

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