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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the FBI want Sam to do?
(a) Set up a meeting with some Chinese Communists.
(b) Turn in Joy as a Communist sympathizer.
(c) Work undercover for them in San Francisco.
(d) Work undercover for them in China.

2. What has Pearl maintained in Hong Kong?
(a) A friendship with someone she knew as a young child.
(b) A deposit box with her American passport.
(c) Illegal contacts.
(d) An apartment.

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

4. Where does a guard tell Pearl he directed Joy?
(a) The missing person's bureau.
(b) He does not remember.
(c) The Artist Association.
(d) The Green Dragon Village.

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

6. Why does Joy accept Tao's offer of marriage?
(a) To ensure that she will stay in the commune forever.
(b) To retaliate against Pearl's comments about Tao.
(c) Because she loves him deeply.
(d) To spite her father.

7. What has happened to the women in the commune?
(a) They have been emaciated from their marriages.
(b) They have been sent to other villages that needed help.
(c) They have been forced into arranged marriages.
(d) They have been forced to bear more children for the cause.

8. Who is in charge of seeing that Dandelion Number Eight reaches its goals?
(a) Commune Leader Lese.
(b) Brigade Leader Lai.
(c) Brigade Leader Suan.
(d) General Tse.

9. Who is Z. G.?
(a) A Chinese official high up in the party.
(b) Joy's father.
(c) A diplomat for the People's Republic of China.
(d) A farmer.

10. How does Sam die?
(a) Accident.
(b) Murder.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Cancer.

11. What does Pearl sometimes sneak and keep?
(a) Small pieces of the poster of her and May.
(b) Bits of memorabilia from her childhood in China.
(c) Newspaper articles about Z. G.
(d) Pieces of material.

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

13. For what city does Joy purchase a ticket?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Hu.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Jadong.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Joy and her father go?

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

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

4. What are the peasants anxious to do?

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

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