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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 is Joy miserable on the commune?
(a) The cold and classes they have to take.
(b) The cold and lack of food.
(c) The commune leader is coming on to her.
(d) Tao is not paying any attention to her.

2. What does the government insist the sparrows do?
(a) Deface public seating areas.
(b) Ignore the government's war.
(c) Devour most of the seeds and grains.
(d) Nest in eaves and ruin them.

3. Who is fed first when there is food?
(a) The youngest.
(b) The elderly.
(c) The most productive.
(d) Males.

4. What do Pearl's housemates do when Pearl is out of the house one day?
(a) Give Pearl's bedroom to another woman.
(b) Destroy Pearl's bedroom.
(c) Searched her bedroom.
(d) Take everything of any value out of Pearl's bedroom.

5. Where is everyone when Z. G. and Pearl arrive at the Green Dragon?
(a) Either dead or in their homes too weak to work.
(b) Working in the rice paddies.
(c) On the road to a larger commune.
(d) Gathered at a public criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is beginning to hit the city?

2. Why does Joy boil the shoes Pearl sends her?

3. What are Z. G. and Pearl's reaction to what they see on their drive to the commune?

4. Why does Pearl apply for paperwork to visit the Green Dragon Village?

5. How has Joy been feeling physically lately?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Pearl apply for a travel visa?

6. Why does Pearl agree to leave the commune with Z. G.?

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

8. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

9. About what does everyone worry on the commune and what does Tao's family do to try to fend off the anticipated problem?

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

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