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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has likely happened to the messages Pearl has sent Joy?
(a) They were burned for starting fires.
(b) They are lost somewhere along the way.
(c) She does not think Pearl has sent her any messages.
(d) The censors have confisgated them.

2. What does the voice over the loudspeaker announce?
(a) One of the workers is pinned under the tractor and help is needed.
(b) Help is needed in the rice paddy.
(c) The district overseer is arriving.
(d) Everyone is to gather at the canteen.

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

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

5. What does Tao do that surprises Joy?
(a) Slaps Yong.
(b) Taunts and jeers at Yong.
(c) Slaps the brigade leader.
(d) Refuses to help Yong up when she falls.

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

7. What does everyone on the commune worry about concerning the upcoming winter?
(a) The winter will be harder than last year.
(b) The artic winds are supposed to be worse this year.
(c) The snow will be worse than last year.
(d) The ground will get too hard to plow.

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

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

10. Where is everyone when Z. G. and Pearl arrive at the Green Dragon?
(a) On the road to a larger commune.
(b) Working in the rice paddies.
(c) Gathered at a public criticism.
(d) Either dead or in their homes too weak to work.

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

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

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

14. What does Joy realize by the messages in the shoes?
(a) Her mother is well.
(b) Her mother is in grave danger.
(c) Her mother is trying to escape back to America.
(d) Her mother has not forgotten her.

15. Why does Pearl feel terrible as she harvests various crops?
(a) For ruining so much of it.
(b) For not going very fast.
(c) For tiring out quickly.
(d) For not knowing how to cut the harvest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stage of starvation are the peasants entering?

2. What work does Pearl do?

3. What war has broken out?

4. How has Joy been feeling physically lately?

5. What does the mandate involve?

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