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

2. How are Pearl and Dun married?
(a) In a Buddhist temple.
(b) By the building supervisor.
(c) They decide to wait until they get to the States.
(d) In a government ceremony.

3. What does the voice over the loudspeaker announce?
(a) Everyone is to gather at the canteen.
(b) One of the workers is pinned under the tractor and help is needed.
(c) The district overseer is arriving.
(d) Help is needed in the rice paddy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Joy too weak to do?

2. What has Tao's family managed to do to stave off starving?

3. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?

4. What is the problem with planting wheat?

5. After whom does Joy name her child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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