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

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

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

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

6. What are sparrows, rats, insects, and flies considered?
(a) The four evils.
(b) The four blessings.
(c) The most fleeting Karma.
(d) The worst karmic debt.

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

8. What work does Pearl do?
(a) Cooking for the harvesters.
(b) Stoke the blast furnace.
(c) Grinding wheat.
(d) Cleaning the canning pots.

9. 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 not knowing how to cut the harvest.
(d) For tiring out quickly.

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

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

12. What was Joy too weak to do?
(a) Hug her mother.
(b) Cry.
(c) Argue against bringing Tao.
(d) Tell her mother to get the other baby that was still alive.

13. 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.

14. What does Joy do when she observes the people's behavior?
(a) Stands on a box and exhorts the crowd to better behavior.
(b) Cries.
(c) Slaps Tao.
(d) Helps Yong to Yong's home.

15. What does the government insist the sparrows do?
(a) Devour most of the seeds and grains.
(b) Nest in eaves and ruin them.
(c) Ignore the government's war.
(d) Deface public seating areas.