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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 does the FBI want Sam to do?
(a) Work undercover for them in China.
(b) Turn in Joy as a Communist sympathizer.
(c) Work undercover for them in San Francisco.
(d) Set up a meeting with some Chinese Communists.

2. What does Joy witness as a result of the woman's suicide?
(a) Her first public criticism.
(b) A whipping.
(c) A hanging.
(d) The village pelting someone with rotten fruit.

3. What does Pearl sometimes sneak and keep?
(a) Pieces of material.
(b) Newspaper articles about Z. G.
(c) Small pieces of the poster of her and May.
(d) Bits of memorabilia from her childhood in China.

4. Who writes frequent letters to each other?
(a) Z. G. and May.
(b) Pearl and May.
(c) Tao and Joy.
(d) Pearl and Auntie Hu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is actually Joy's biological mother?

2. What does Joy realize are empty fantasies?

3. What has happened to the women in the commune?

4. Who is chasing Joy from the United States?

5. Why does one woman say that Pearl should not try to contact Z. G.?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the Prologue recount?

4. Why does Z. G. rebuke Joy for sneaking off with Tao?

5. What does Pearl find when she goes to her childhood home?

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

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

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

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

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

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