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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 Joy convince the brigade leader to let her do her project in the commune center?
(a) Shows him how it will help the commune's output.
(b) Appeals to his self interest.
(c) Gives him a money bribe.
(d) Offers to go to bed with him.

2. What does the mandate involve?
(a) To see which commune can harvest their crops the fastest.
(b) Digging miles of trenches for the water.
(c) A crop that has not been grown in China until now.
(d) Using more machinery.

3. Who does Pearl carry to the car?
(a) No one.
(b) Yong.
(c) Kumei.
(d) Ta-Ming.

4. How has Joy been feeling physically lately?
(a) About the same as always.
(b) In great shape.
(c) She's been nauseous.
(d) Very ill.

5. What has Tao's family managed to do to stave off starving?
(a) Hide a cupful of uncooked wheat kernels.
(b) Grow a few mushrooms in the cellar.
(c) Kill a few rats and mice.
(d) Kill a few pigeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are sparrows, rats, insects, and flies considered?

2. Who is fed first when there is food?

3. What is pinned to Yong's chest?

4. What work does Pearl do?

5. What does the government realize about the peasants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What crop is to be planted the following year and why is this a poor decision?

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

4. What does Joy say in a letter to Pearl, and what is Pearl's reaction?

5. What do Dun and Pearl race to do and what does Pearl decide?

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

7. What does the brigade leader say about Yong, and what does he make Yong do?

8. What sort of horrors do Z.G. and Pearl see when they are driving to the village?

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

10. What does Pearl find has arrived one day after returning from work?

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