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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) Give Pearl's bedroom to another woman.
(b) Take everything of any value out of Pearl's bedroom.
(c) Searched her bedroom.
(d) Destroy Pearl's bedroom.

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

3. Why is Joy miserable on the commune?
(a) The commune leader is coming on to her.
(b) Tao is not paying any attention to her.
(c) The cold and classes they have to take.
(d) The cold and lack of food.

4. What does Kumei admit to Joy?
(a) She's going to sneak away from the village.
(b) She's been sleeping with the brigade leader.
(c) She is getting married to Tao's older brother.
(d) She is pregnant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Why does Pearl apply for paperwork to visit the Green Dragon Village?
(a) To take Joy maternity clothes.
(b) Because Joy is pregnant.
(c) To try to get Joy to leave the commune.
(d) To take Joy vitamins.

14. Why is Pearl upset to hear that Joy is pregnant?
(a) Joy will not get good care.
(b) Joy's health will be in danger.
(c) Joy will never leave the commune now.
(d) Joy will not be treated well if she has a girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the brigade leader say about Yong?

2. What is beginning to hit the city?

3. What does Pearl say about Tao?

4. Alongside whom does Pearl work?

5. How does Z. G. get Joy, Tao and Samantha to his car?

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