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

2. What does Kumei admit to Joy?
(a) She's going to sneak away from the village.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is getting married to Tao's older brother.
(d) She's been sleeping with the brigade leader.

3. What do Z. G. and the others encounter on the way back to Shanghai?
(a) The brigade leader trying to walk to Shanghai.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Several roadblocks.
(d) Many people walking towards Shanghai.

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

5. Where does Tao's mother send Joy when she begins contractions?
(a) The birthing house.
(b) The hospital in the closest city.
(c) No where.
(d) The next-door neighbor's house who is a midwife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much rice is each peasant given per day?

2. What does Pearl say about Tao?

3. What does Tao do that surprises Joy?

4. What does the government promise to women who give birth?

5. What is the problem with planting wheat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Z. G. arrange for the group to get out of China?

3. What about the package from Joy confuses Pearl, and who understands the message?

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

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

6. Why does Pearl apply for a travel visa?

7. What war has broken out in the commune?

8. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

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

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

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