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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 will make it more difficult for Pearl to search for Joy?
(a) Registering her information.
(b) Having no money.
(c) Having her passport taken.
(d) Having no transportation.

2. What does the interrogator force Pearl to do?
(a) Register all her information.
(b) Tell him everything she knows about the United States.
(c) Renounce her Imperialist ways.
(d) Renounce her American citizenship.

3. What has Auntie Hu managed to do despite the new governmental controls?
(a) Create art in her own fashion.
(b) Live a life of luxury.
(c) Visit abroad.
(d) Write to May regularly.

4. Who is waiting for Pearl in her bedroom?
(a) No one.
(b) Joy.
(c) Dun.
(d) Z. G.

5. Who explains to Pearl that China has a large export business?
(a) The CEO of the largest export business in China.
(b) A worker from Soo Yuen Benevolent Association.
(c) The agent in immigration.
(d) Z. G.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Joy to question the ways of the village?

2. In what do the sisters write to each other?

3. Why does Z.G. rebuke Joy?

4. Why is Joy not supposed to be pleased with her performance?

5. How does Joy feel about returning to the commune?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Joy get into China?

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

4. Of what do Pearl's housemates accuse her, and who seems to be supportive of her?

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

6. Who gives a mediocre performance in acting out Joy's play, and how is she received?

7. What happens to Joy's stepfather, Sam, and how does Joy feel about it?

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

9. Describe Joy's trip to China.

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

(see the answer keys)

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