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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Feng Tao supposedly do in Shanghai?
(a) Have a showing at the Red Gallery.
(b) Help Z. G. produce more posters.
(c) Give a speech about the mural at the commune.
(d) Attend an artist's school.

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

3. To what does Joy think the people are blind?
(a) The way the brigade leader lives.
(b) The government's abuse.
(c) Imminent death.
(d) The way so many of the communes members are dying.

4. What does the mandate involve?
(a) A crop that has not been grown in China until now.
(b) To see which commune can harvest their crops the fastest.
(c) Digging miles of trenches for the water.
(d) Using more machinery.

5. What does Joy allow Pearl to do?
(a) Braid her hair.
(b) Sleep late.
(c) Help her bathe.
(d) Get ready to see Tao.

6. How are Pearl and Dun married?
(a) In a Buddhist temple.
(b) In a government ceremony.
(c) By the building supervisor.
(d) They decide to wait until they get to the States.

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

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

9. What does the government promise to women who give birth?
(a) Extra food rations and cloth.
(b) An experienced doctor.
(c) An experienced midwife.
(d) Their female children will be protected.

10. 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.

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

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

13. What is pinned to Yong's chest?
(a) A white ribbon.
(b) A red star.
(c) A red sash.
(d) A white star.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Kumei have a disagreement?

2. What does Dun recognize as symbolic of extreme distress?

3. What does Pearl say about Tao?

4. How will Joy and her baby be sneaked out of the commune?

5. What does Joy do when she observes the people's behavior?

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