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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 will Joy and her baby be sneaked out of the commune?
(a) In a barrel.
(b) In the trunk of Z. G.'s car.
(c) In a coffin.
(d) In a shroud.

2. What does Dun recognize as symbolic of extreme distress?
(a) The boiled piece of leather.
(b) The feathers in the package.
(c) The black circles on several pieces of paper
(d) The "x" mark on several pieces of paper.

3. How is Joy's relationship with her in-laws proceeding?
(a) At an all-time low.
(b) Neutral.
(c) Deteriorating.
(d) Improving.

4. What does Joy do when she observes the people's behavior?
(a) Stands on a box and exhorts the crowd to better behavior.
(b) Helps Yong to Yong's home.
(c) Cries.
(d) Slaps Tao.

5. Why is Joy happy but frustrated when she receives a package from Pearl?
(a) That there is no baby formula in the package.
(b) That the letter is brief and says nothing.
(c) That Pearl has not come to the commune in person.
(d) That there is no money in the package.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is pinned to Yong's chest?

2. What does Pearl confide to Joy about Dun?

3. Why does Pearl feel terrible as she harvests various crops?

4. What is beginning to hit the city?

5. What do the harvesters leave standing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

2. Why does Pearl apply for a travel visa?

3. What happens when the commune members are called to the canteen?

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

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

6. What does Pearl send Joy and what does Joy do with the articles?

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

8. How does Z. G. decide to get Joy away from the commune?

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

10. How does Joy react to the spectacle the Brigade leader makes of Yong, and how does she display courage?

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