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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Pearl upset to hear that Joy is pregnant?
(a) Joy will not be treated well if she has a girl.
(b) Joy will not get good care.
(c) Joy will never leave the commune now.
(d) Joy's health will be in danger.

2. How does Z. G. get Joy, Tao and Samantha to his car?
(a) A cart.
(b) Carrying them one by one.
(c) Dragging them.
(d) A wheelbarrow.

3. What does the brigade leader continue to expect?
(a) A full day's labor.
(b) Propaganda classes in addition to the full day of hard labor.
(c) Gourmet meals.
(d) Double production.

4. What does the commune leader announce that is mandated by the government?
(a) A new crop.
(b) A new irrigation system.
(c) A contest.
(d) A new type of farming.

5. What is Tao disgusted with Joy?
(a) Because she wants to go back to America.
(b) Because she wears dresses.
(c) Because she loves a female child.
(d) Because of her paintings.

6. Why does Joy boil the shoes Pearl sends her?
(a) To stretch them.
(b) To shrink them.
(c) To extract the rice paste.
(d) To kill the mold on them.

7. How does Joy convince the brigade leader to let her do her project in the commune center?
(a) Appeals to his self interest.
(b) Gives him a money bribe.
(c) Shows him how it will help the commune's output.
(d) Offers to go to bed with him.

8. What stage of starvation are the peasants entering?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Skin diseases.
(c) Weight Loss.
(d) Edema.

9. What does Pearl confide to Joy about Dun?
(a) That he is a spy for the United States.
(b) That he has asked Pearl to marry him.
(c) That he is the man she loved when she was a teen before leaving China.
(d) That he is going to America.

10. With whom does Kumei have a disagreement?
(a) Tao.
(b) The brigade leader.
(c) Yong.
(d) Joy.

11. Where does Tao's mother send Joy when she begins contractions?
(a) No where.
(b) The next-door neighbor's house who is a midwife.
(c) The hospital in the closest city.
(d) The birthing house.

12. What are sparrows, rats, insects, and flies considered?
(a) The four evils.
(b) The most fleeting Karma.
(c) The four blessings.
(d) The worst karmic debt.

13. Who does Pearl carry to the car?
(a) No one.
(b) Kumei.
(c) Ta-Ming.
(d) Yong.

14. To what does Pearl awaken?
(a) A headache.
(b) Bangs.
(c) A scream.
(d) A growl.

15. What do the harvesters leave standing?
(a) Many uncut rice stalks.
(b) Ten percent of the crop for the local farmers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Every tenth row for gleaners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is pinned to Yong's chest?

2. How is Joy's relationship with her in-laws proceeding?

3. To what does Joy think the people are blind?

4. What does the government realize about the peasants?

5. What is the problem with planting wheat?

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