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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Z. G. and Pearl's reaction to what they see on their drive to the commune?
(a) Incredulity at the wasted harvest.
(b) Horror at what they are witnessing.
(c) Indifference since it's almost as bad in the city.
(d) Rage.

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

3. What is the meaning of the item pinned to Yong's chest?
(a) She is being recognized for some achievement.
(b) She is being allowed to retire.
(c) She has been denounced from the commune.
(d) She is going to give a talk.

4. What is the problem with planting wheat?
(a) The high humidity spoils wheat.
(b) The mice eat too much of it.
(c) The birds eat too much of it.
(d) The soil is not right for wheat.

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

6. What requires that every pair of hands work nonstop?
(a) The harvest.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The Great Leap Forward.
(d) The upcoming festival.

7. What does Kumei admit to Joy?
(a) She's been sleeping with the brigade leader.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is getting married to Tao's older brother.
(d) She's going to sneak away from the village.

8. What does Auntie Hu tell Pearl?
(a) That Auntie Hu is very ill.
(b) That the officials asked Auntie Hu about Pearl.
(c) That Auntie Hu is planning to leave Chine.
(d) That Z. G. can not be trusted.

9. What do Z. G. and the others encounter on the way back to Shanghai?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The brigade leader trying to walk to Shanghai.
(c) Several roadblocks.
(d) Many people walking towards Shanghai.

10. What do Pearl's housemates do when Pearl is out of the house one day?
(a) Take everything of any value out of Pearl's bedroom.
(b) Destroy Pearl's bedroom.
(c) Searched her bedroom.
(d) Give Pearl's bedroom to another woman.

11. Who concocts a plan to get to the commune?
(a) Dun.
(b) Z. G.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Auntie Hu.

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

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

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

15. Who does Joy think the most powerful leaders in China are?
(a) None.
(b) The ones who get busy and help the peasants with the harvest.
(c) The ones who have been executed for so-called treason.
(d) The ones who lie the biggest and best.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tao not do after Joy gives birth?

2. What does the government insist the sparrows do?

3. What does the government promise to women who give birth?

4. What will Feng Tao supposedly do in Shanghai?

5. How are Pearl and Dun married?

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