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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Dog Grins: Chapters 14 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Pearl feel terrible as she harvests various crops?
(a) For not going very fast.
(b) For tiring out quickly.
(c) For ruining so much of it.
(d) For not knowing how to cut the harvest.

2. To what is Pearl sentenced?
(a) Weekly reports to an agent.
(b) Six days hard labor.
(c) Six days in a community work house.
(d) Weekly thought-reform sessions.

3. Who is not suspicious of Pearl?
(a) Dun.
(b) Her brother-in-law.
(c) Her old nanny.
(d) Z. G.

4. What has happened to Kumei from the age of five on?
(a) She is raped nightly from her husband in an arranged marriage.
(b) She has had aspirations of becoming an artist.
(c) She has terrible, almost-daily headaches.
(d) She has had terrible nightmares.

5. What does Pearl learn from Z. G.'s servant?
(a) Joy is not with Z. G.
(b) Z. G. has met Joy.
(c) Z. G. has been sent to the countryside to redeem himself.
(d) Z. G. is being honored in Beijing that month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the Chinese hope to overpower in the future?

2. Why are all the people of the commune fed three meals a day at the canteen?

3. Where do Joy and her father go?

4. On what wall is Joy's picture to be hung?

5. What happens three months after Z. G. leaves the commune?

(see the answer key)

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