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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Dragon Rises: Chapters 24 - 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens three months after Z. G. leaves the commune?
(a) He is sentenced to prison.
(b) He returns to get Pearl.
(c) He is sentenced to death.
(d) He escapes to Hong Kong.

2. What do the harvesters leave standing?
(a) Every tenth row for gleaners.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ten percent of the crop for the local farmers.
(d) Many uncut rice stalks.

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

4. What is a social campaign aimed to transform China called?
(a) China First.
(b) The Hope of the Future.
(c) Leaping into the Future.
(d) The Great Leap Forward.

5. How does Z. G. get Joy, Tao and Samantha to his car?
(a) Dragging them.
(b) Carrying them one by one.
(c) A wheelbarrow.
(d) A cart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What work does Pearl do?

3. Why did Joy's real father paint portraits of Joy's mother and aunt?

4. Why does Joy think she will never leave the commune?

5. Why does Joy boil the shoes Pearl sends her?

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