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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pearl think will be very difficult?
(a) Convincing Joy to come home.
(b) Leaving China.
(c) Finding Z. G.
(d) Getting into China.

2. What has Auntie Hu managed to do despite the new governmental controls?
(a) Create art in her own fashion.
(b) Live a life of luxury.
(c) Write to May regularly.
(d) Visit abroad.

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

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

5. Why is Z. G. sent back to the commune?
(a) To find a young person to mentor.
(b) To supervise Joy and Tao.
(c) To show how much he has progressed.
(d) To teach the peasants how to produce propaganda posters.

6. How many siblings does Tao have?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 8.

7. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?
(a) For laughing at one of the village elders.
(b) For feeling pride in her performance.
(c) For not being properly respectful to him.
(d) For sneaking off with Tao.

8. What is Z. G. supposed to remember?
(a) Why he supported the revolution.
(b) Who makes his lifestyle possible.
(c) Who is responsible for the liberation of China.
(d) The goals of communist art.

9. What does Pearl's contact help her do?
(a) Sneak into China.
(b) Contact the missing persons bureau of Shanghai.
(c) Set up a contact across in Hong Kong for mail forwarding.
(d) Contact the artist association of Beijing.

10. Where does Joy go to search for her father?
(a) His second wife's family home.
(b) The Artist Association.
(c) A museum.
(d) His family home.

11. 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.

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

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

14. Where is Joy wandering just after she runs away from home?
(a) Fisherman's Wharf.
(b) The streets of Chinatown.
(c) The Presidio.
(d) Golden Gate Park.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pearl finally admit to May?

2. Why did Joy's real father paint portraits of Joy's mother and aunt?

3. What does Pearl learn from Z. G.'s servant?

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

5. What does the FBI want Sam to do?

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