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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. How does the Captain of the ship from Hong Kong cheat Joy?
(a) He does not cheat her.
(b) He takes half of her money for exchanging her American dollars.
(c) He offers to keep her jewelry safe but never gives it back.
(d) He charges her double for the passage.

2. Why does Pearl not leave with Z. G.?
(a) She is in love with a man at the commune.
(b) Joy will not leave the commune.
(c) Pearl has been ordered to stay at the commune.
(d) She hopes to whisk Joy away.

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

4. What is Z. G. supposed to remember?
(a) The goals of communist art.
(b) Why he supported the revolution.
(c) Who makes his lifestyle possible.
(d) Who is responsible for the liberation of China.

5. Who is in charge of seeing that Dandelion Number Eight reaches its goals?
(a) Commune Leader Lese.
(b) General Tse.
(c) Brigade Leader Suan.
(d) Brigade Leader Lai.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Pearl sentenced?

2. What does Pearl finally admit to May?

3. What does Pearl's contact help her do?

4. What are the peasants anxious to do?

5. What job is Pearl given?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the Prologue recount?

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

8. What are some of the lies Joy discovers about her family?

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

10. What is Green Dragon Village?

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