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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Joy too weak to do?
(a) Argue against bringing Tao.
(b) Tell her mother to get the other baby that was still alive.
(c) Cry.
(d) Hug her mother.

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

3. What is valued over performance?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Espirit de corps.
(c) Speed.
(d) Looking busy.

4. What do Joy and Z. G. do in Canton?
(a) Make love.
(b) Make plans.
(c) Cry about Joy.
(d) Fight.

5. What is beginning to hit the city?
(a) Disease.
(b) Food shortages.
(c) Heat waves.
(d) Rumors of the civil war coming closer.

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

7. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?
(a) Auntie Hu.
(b) Z. G.
(c) Pearl's father.
(d) Z. G.'s housekeeper.

8. What happens three months after Z. G. leaves the commune?
(a) He is sentenced to prison.
(b) He escapes to Hong Kong.
(c) He returns to get Pearl.
(d) He is sentenced to death.

9. Why is Joy happy but frustrated when she receives a package from Pearl?
(a) That the letter is brief and says nothing.
(b) That there is no baby formula in the package.
(c) That there is no money in the package.
(d) That Pearl has not come to the commune in person.

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

11. Who is fed first when there is food?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Males.
(c) The most productive.
(d) The youngest.

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

13. How will Joy and her baby be sneaked out of the commune?
(a) In a barrel.
(b) In a coffin.
(c) In a shroud.
(d) In the trunk of Z. G.'s car.

14. What does Joy want to create in the commune center?
(a) A mural.
(b) An art gallery.
(c) A support network.
(d) A place where people can gather and have fun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the brigade leader have Yong do?

2. What does Auntie Hu tell Pearl?

3. What is the meaning of the item pinned to Yong's chest?

4. What work does Pearl do?

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

(see the answer keys)

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