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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. Why does Joy boil the shoes Pearl sends her?
(a) To extract the rice paste.
(b) To stretch them.
(c) To kill the mold on them.
(d) To shrink them.

2. Why does Pearl apply for paperwork to visit the Green Dragon Village?
(a) To take Joy vitamins.
(b) To try to get Joy to leave the commune.
(c) Because Joy is pregnant.
(d) To take Joy maternity clothes.

3. What does the brigade leader continue to expect?
(a) Propaganda classes in addition to the full day of hard labor.
(b) Gourmet meals.
(c) Double production.
(d) A full day's labor.

4. How much rice is each peasant given per day?
(a) A quart.
(b) One cup.
(c) One-half cup.
(d) Two cups.

5. What has likely happened to the messages Pearl has sent Joy?
(a) She does not think Pearl has sent her any messages.
(b) They were burned for starting fires.
(c) They are lost somewhere along the way.
(d) The censors have confisgated them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the voice over the loudspeaker announce?

2. What does the government realize about the peasants?

3. Why is Joy miserable on the commune?

4. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?

5. What is pinned to Yong's chest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gives Joy hope as she boils her new shoes?

2. What are indications that the famine caused by The Great Leap Forward is progressing horribly?

3. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

4. Why does Pearl apply for a travel visa?

5. Why does Tao's mother send Joy to the birthing house and what is the outcome?

6. What happens that restores the closeness between Joy and Pearl?

7. What war has broken out in the commune?

8. What is Tao's reaction to his new daughter and what does Joy decide about the child's name?

9. What does Dun confess to Pearl, and what is her reaction?

10. What contest does the Brigade leader announce and how does the contest contribute to the food shortage?

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