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

2. Who do Pearl and Dun go find?
(a) Z. G.'s housekeeper.
(b) Pearl's father.
(c) Z. G.
(d) Auntie Hu.

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

4. What war has broken out?
(a) In Taipai Province.
(b) Near the border of Russia and Mongolia.
(c) In Huayang Province.
(d) Against the four evils.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pearl upset to hear that Joy is pregnant?

2. What do Joy and Z. G. do in Canton?

3. What do the harvesters leave standing?

4. What does everyone on the commune worry about concerning the upcoming winter?

5. What does the brigade leader have Yong do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Pearl apply for a travel visa?

10. Why does Pearl work alongside Yong?

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