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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 is the meaning of the item pinned to Yong's chest?
(a) She is being recognized for some achievement.
(b) She has been denounced from the commune.
(c) She is being allowed to retire.
(d) She is going to give a talk.

2. After whom does Joy name her child?
(a) Sam.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Tao.
(d) Z. G.

3. What does the government realize about the peasants?
(a) They are eating more food than can be sustained.
(b) They are close to revolting.
(c) They are more aware than they let on.
(d) They are for the most part not too bright.

4. What work does Pearl do?
(a) Stoke the blast furnace.
(b) Cooking for the harvesters.
(c) Grinding wheat.
(d) Cleaning the canning pots.

5. What was Joy too weak to do?
(a) Tell her mother to get the other baby that was still alive.
(b) Argue against bringing Tao.
(c) Cry.
(d) Hug her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is fed first when there is food?

2. Alongside whom does Pearl work?

3. How will Joy and her baby be sneaked out of the commune?

4. What does Joy want to create in the commune center?

5. What do Pearl's housemates do when Pearl is out of the house one day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What sort of horrors do Z.G. and Pearl see when they are driving to the village?

4. What crop is to be planted the following year and why is this a poor decision?

5. How does Joy react to the spectacle the Brigade leader makes of Yong, and how does she display courage?

6. What does the brigade leader say about Yong, and what does he make Yong do?

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

8. What does Joy say in a letter to Pearl, and what is Pearl's reaction?

9. About what does everyone worry on the commune and what does Tao's family do to try to fend off the anticipated problem?

10. What are indications that the famine caused by The Great Leap Forward is progressing horribly?

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