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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How has Joy been feeling physically lately?
(a) Very ill.
(b) She's been nauseous.
(c) In great shape.
(d) About the same as always.

4. What does Joy do when she observes the people's behavior?
(a) Slaps Tao.
(b) Helps Yong to Yong's home.
(c) Cries.
(d) Stands on a box and exhorts the crowd to better behavior.

5. What does the government realize about the peasants?
(a) They are eating more food than can be sustained.
(b) They are close to revolting.
(c) They are more aware than they let on.
(d) They are for the most part not too bright.

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

7. What work does Pearl do?
(a) Stoke the blast furnace.
(b) Grinding wheat.
(c) Cleaning the canning pots.
(d) Cooking for the harvesters.

8. What does the government insist the sparrows do?
(a) Nest in eaves and ruin them.
(b) Ignore the government's war.
(c) Deface public seating areas.
(d) Devour most of the seeds and grains.

9. What does Joy request of Tao in front of the commune?
(a) A divorce.
(b) His blessing on his baby.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food.

10. How much rice is each peasant given per day?
(a) One-half cup.
(b) Two cups.
(c) One cup.
(d) A quart.

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

12. After whom does Joy name her child?
(a) Pearl.
(b) Z. G.
(c) Sam.
(d) Tao.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Joy think the most powerful leaders in China are?

2. Why does Pearl apply for paperwork to visit the Green Dragon Village?

3. What does Tao do that surprises Joy?

4. What is pinned to Yong's chest?

5. What are Z. G. and Pearl's reaction to what they see on their drive to the commune?

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