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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Joy's relationship with her in-laws proceeding?
(a) Improving.
(b) Neutral.
(c) At an all-time low.
(d) Deteriorating.

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

4. What does the government realize about the peasants?
(a) They are for the most part not too bright.
(b) They are more aware than they let on.
(c) They are eating more food than can be sustained.
(d) They are close to revolting.

5. Why is Pearl delighted when she returns from work one evening?
(a) To learn that her travel visa has been approved.
(b) To find Dun has made her some dinner.
(c) To learn a package from Joy has arrived.
(d) To learn that Joy is on her way there.

6. After whom does Joy name her child?
(a) Pearl.
(b) Sam.
(c) Tao.
(d) Z. G.

7. What does Pearl say about Tao?
(a) He is a good man in a bad situation.
(b) He is an evil man.
(c) He is sorry for what he did.
(d) He is doing the best he can.

8. What stage of starvation are the peasants entering?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Weight Loss.
(c) Edema.
(d) Skin diseases.

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

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

11. What does the brigade leader say about Yong?
(a) She is a parasite.
(b) She is a hero.
(c) She is doing more than her share of the work.
(d) She is a victim.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?

2. What does Joy allow Pearl to do?

3. What is valued over performance?

4. To what does Pearl awaken?

5. What was Joy too weak to do?

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