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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Z.G. going in the morning?
(a) Court.
(b) To an art exhibit.
(c) The countryside.
(d) His mother's home.

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

3. What does the FBI want Sam to do?
(a) Work undercover for them in China.
(b) Turn in Joy as a Communist sympathizer.
(c) Set up a meeting with some Chinese Communists.
(d) Work undercover for them in San Francisco.

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

5. In what typeface is the entire Prologue written?
(a) Italics.
(b) Bold-faced.
(c) Underlined.
(d) Regular type.

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

7. On what wall is Joy's picture to be hung?
(a) The Wailing Wall.
(b) The Comrade Wall of Returned Chinese.
(c) The Great Wall.
(d) The wall of disillusioned Americans.

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

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

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

11. What assignment is Joy given?
(a) Running the village nursery.
(b) Giving English lessons to the village children.
(c) That of arranging a propaganda play for the village about the Marriage Law.
(d) Giving music lessons to the village children.

12. What does Pearl say about Tao?
(a) He is handsome.
(b) He is wise beyond his years.
(c) He is insignificant.
(d) He is a good match for Joy.

13. Who does Joy believe is her biological mother?
(a) Ling.
(b) May.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Suan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joy realize are empty fantasies?

2. What does Pearl think she would have done if life had treated her a bit more kindly?

3. For what city does Joy purchase a ticket?

4. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?

5. To what is Pearl sentenced?

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