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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: The Rabbit Dodges: Chapters 11 - 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joy feel about returning to the commune?
(a) Angry.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Thrilled.
(d) Resigned.

2. What does Pearl think she would have done if life had treated her a bit more kindly?
(a) Had several of her own children.
(b) Married a young, handsome professor like Dun.
(c) Found Joy and gotten out of China already.
(d) Lived to a ripe old age in the Shanghai of her youth.

3. Why does Pearl not get along well with the boarders in her childhood home?
(a) They are suspicious of Pearl's reasons for returning to China.
(b) They think she speaks with an English accent.
(c) They think she is too bourgeois.
(d) They think she believes herself to be superior to them.

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

5. Who is waiting for Pearl in her bedroom?
(a) Z. G.
(b) No one.
(c) Dun.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what typeface is the entire Prologue written?

2. What causes Joy to question the ways of the village?

3. Who writes frequent letters to each other?

4. What does the interrogator force Pearl to do?

5. Of whom is Joy slightly afraid?

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