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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Z. G. say it is time to go?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Peking.
(c) Hong Kong.
(d) Shanghai.

6. Who writes frequent letters to each other?
(a) Z. G. and May.
(b) Pearl and May.
(c) Tao and Joy.
(d) Pearl and Auntie Hu.

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

8. Why does Joy think she will never leave the commune?
(a) She loves farming.
(b) Her father has to live there for the rest of his life.
(c) She loves Tao.
(d) She is afraid to leave it.

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

10. What has Pearl maintained in Hong Kong?
(a) A friendship with someone she knew as a young child.
(b) Illegal contacts.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A deposit box with her American passport.

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

12. What has happened to the women in the commune?
(a) They have been emaciated from their marriages.
(b) They have been forced to bear more children for the cause.
(c) They have been forced into arranged marriages.
(d) They have been sent to other villages that needed help.

13. Who is waiting for Pearl in her bedroom?
(a) Joy.
(b) Dun.
(c) Z. G.
(d) No one.

14. Who explains to Pearl that China has a large export business?
(a) Z. G.
(b) A worker from Soo Yuen Benevolent Association.
(c) The agent in immigration.
(d) The CEO of the largest export business in China.

15. Who is actually Joy's biological mother?
(a) Suan.
(b) Ling.
(c) May.
(d) Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assignment is Joy given?

2. Who is not suspicious of Pearl?

3. Who is Auntie Hu?

4. What Zodiac sign can include being tricky?

5. What is the precipitating factor for Joy's assignment?

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