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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where is May to meet the group?
(a) Taipai.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Tokoyo.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. What does Tao not do after Joy gives birth?
(a) Talk to the doctor about Joy's condition.
(b) Come to look at his child.
(c) Help Joy recover.
(d) Name the child.

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

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

13. What does the brigade leader continue to expect?
(a) Double production.
(b) A full day's labor.
(c) Gourmet meals.
(d) Propaganda classes in addition to the full day of hard labor.

14. What does Dun recognize as symbolic of extreme distress?
(a) The feathers in the package.
(b) The black circles on several pieces of paper
(c) The boiled piece of leather.
(d) The "x" mark on several pieces of paper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the harvesters leave standing?

2. What does Joy allow Pearl to do?

3. What does the brigade leader have Yong do?

4. What requires that every pair of hands work nonstop?

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

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