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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Pearl elation when she enters China?
(a) She sees Joy's picture on the wall of returning Chinese.
(b) She sees her picture on a poster drawn by Z. G.
(c) She talks to someone who has met Joy.
(d) She sees Z. G. at the airport.

2. Why does Joy accept Tao's offer of marriage?
(a) Because she loves him deeply.
(b) To retaliate against Pearl's comments about Tao.
(c) To spite her father.
(d) To ensure that she will stay in the commune forever.

3. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?
(a) For feeling pride in her performance.
(b) For sneaking off with Tao.
(c) For laughing at one of the village elders.
(d) For not being properly respectful to him.

4. Why does Kumei think Joy and Tao are a perfect match?
(a) Joy is short and Tao is short.
(b) Joy is a tiger and Tao is a dog.
(c) Joy has many siblings and Tao is an only child.
(d) Joy is a leo and Tao is a virgo.

5. Why did Joy's real father paint portraits of Joy's mother and aunt?
(a) For wanted posters.
(b) Because he loved both of them.
(c) For propaganda posters.
(d) To practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the FBI want Sam to do?

2. Who is waiting for Pearl in her bedroom?

3. What does Joy realize are empty fantasies?

4. What is Z. G. supposed to remember?

5. How does Z. G. view Joy's relationship with Tao?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Great Leap Forward and what does China hope to accomplish with it?

2. What information does Pearl learn right after entering China that relieves her mind?

3. What do Z. G. and Joy begin doing immediately at the commune, and why is the work so grueling?

4. What does Pearl finally tell May about Joy and Z. G.?

5. Who does Pearl visit one morning and how does the older woman seem?

6. With who does Pearl regularly correspond and how does she help Pearl?

7. What happens when Joy calls her boyfriend Joe when she is wandering through Chinatown?

8. What does Pearl do every morning for a job and what does she find as she is performing her duties?

9. What does Pearl learn about the whereabouts of Z. G. and Joy?

10. What does Pearl think about as she goes after Joy?

(see the answer keys)

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