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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 has happened to the women in the commune?
(a) They have been forced into arranged marriages.
(b) They have been emaciated from their marriages.
(c) They have been sent to other villages that needed help.
(d) They have been forced to bear more children for the cause.

2. Why is Joy not supposed to be pleased with her performance?
(a) She is an outsider.
(b) An American cannot do something well.
(c) There is no place for pride in China.
(d) She is not supposed to do better than others in the village.

3. 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 ensure that she will stay in the commune forever.
(d) To spite her father.

4. What is Dandelion Number Eight People's Commune?
(a) A poster Z. G. paints.
(b) A merging of Green Dragon Village and some nearby villages.
(c) A group of protestors.
(d) A poster Joy paints.

5. How does a woman kill herself one day?
(a) Drinking poison.
(b) Falling on an old rusty sword unearthed in the field.
(c) Throwing herself in the way of the hay cutter.
(d) Throwing herself down a well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the book, "Shanghai Girls"?

2. When is the last time Pearl has been in China?

3. Who is chasing Joy from the United States?

4. Where does Z. G. say it is time to go?

5. Who explains to Pearl that China has a large export business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Prologue recount?

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

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

4. Describe Joy's trip to China.

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

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

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

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

9. What assignment is Joy given in the village, and why?

10. Why is Pearl called into a government office and what is she told?

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