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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. Who concocts a plan to get to the commune?
(a) Auntie Hu.
(b) Dun.
(c) Z. G.
(d) Pearl.

2. Why does Tao insult Joy after she gives birth?
(a) For screaming during labor.
(b) For not having a boy.
(c) For wanting to name their child after an American.
(d) For not allowing Tao to take the child and kill her.

3. What does the brigade leader have Yong do?
(a) Tell her story.
(b) Unbind her feet.
(c) Give each worker a bonus.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who does Joy think the most powerful leaders in China are?
(a) None.
(b) The ones who get busy and help the peasants with the harvest.
(c) The ones who lie the biggest and best.
(d) The ones who have been executed for so-called treason.

5. What is the problem with planting wheat?
(a) The soil is not right for wheat.
(b) The mice eat too much of it.
(c) The birds eat too much of it.
(d) The high humidity spoils wheat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pearl confide to Joy about Dun?

2. What stage of starvation are the peasants entering?

3. What does the government realize about the peasants?

4. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Pearl apply for a travel visa?

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

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

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

9. What war has broken out in the commune?

10. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

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