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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Dandelion Number Eight People's Commune?
(a) A group of protestors.
(b) A poster Z. G. paints.
(c) A merging of Green Dragon Village and some nearby villages.
(d) A poster Joy paints.

3. Why does Z. G. arrange for Joy and Tao to have art lessons together?
(a) So Z. G. can discourage Tao from being interested in Joy.
(b) So Z. G. can discourage Joy from being interested in Tao.
(c) They both have similar talent.
(d) So they can spend time together away from the prying eyes of the commune.

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

5. Why does one woman say that Pearl should not try to contact Z. G.?
(a) He has a black mark against him.
(b) He will be in trouble if an American contacts him.
(c) He is married.
(d) He is an agent for a very sinister group.

6. Who do the Chinese hope to overpower in the future?
(a) Imperialistic countries.
(b) Japan.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Russia.

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

8. How does the Chinese government view romance?
(a) A necessary evil.
(b) They have offered no opinions about it.
(c) It makes the life of the peasants more bearable.
(d) It is strictly forbidden.

9. Who is Z. G.?
(a) A farmer.
(b) Joy's father.
(c) A diplomat for the People's Republic of China.
(d) A Chinese official high up in the party.

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

11. What does Tao ask Joy?
(a) If she has a young man in the United States.
(b) If he can return with her to the United States.
(c) If she will stay with him in the Green Dragon village which what he loves.
(d) If she will marry him.

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

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

14. 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 believes herself to be superior to them.
(c) They think she speaks with an English accent.
(d) They think she is too bourgeois.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pearl not leave with Z. G.?

2. How does the Captain of the ship from Hong Kong cheat Joy?

3. Where does Joy go to search for her father?

4. To what is Pearl sentenced?

5. What does Tao say is the reason for the water buffalo's suffering?

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