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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. For what city does Joy purchase a ticket?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Jadong.
(c) Hu.
(d) Shanghai.

2. What do Pearl's housemates say about her when she returns from Auntie Hu's home?
(a) She is too imperialistic.
(b) She does not work hard enough.
(c) She is too slow.
(d) She is too noisy.

3. According to Auntie Hu, how can Pearl reclaim many of her old belongings?
(a) By asking the neighbors for help.
(b) In pawn shops.
(c) By finding all the receipts in the trunks in the attic.
(d) By petitioning the government.

4. What does the agent do before allowing Joy to enter China?
(a) Confisgate her American passport.
(b) Confisgate most of her belongings.
(c) Stamp her American passport so she will not be able to leave.
(d) Give her a new identity.

5. What does Pearl frequently see as she is doing her job as paper collector?
(a) Posters of she and May.
(b) Propaganda against the United States.
(c) Disabled elderly people begging.
(d) People celebrating Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what wall is Joy's picture to be hung?

2. Who has kept Pearl's room exactly as she left it?

3. Why are all the people of the commune fed three meals a day at the canteen?

4. What are the peasants anxious to do?

5. What does Pearl learn from Z. G.'s servant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the commune set up for The Great Leap Forward?

2. What does Joy think about when listening to the propaganda about working hard?

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

4. How does Joy feel about returning to the Green Dragon Village, and what has happened to the village?

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

6. What does Pearl think about how she can get into China and who helps her?

7. What organization does Joy join in college and why does she end up in China?

8. What does the Prologue recount?

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

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

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