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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of information does Bartlett give to Gornt?

2. What trade does the High Tiger of the White Powders engage in?

3. Whom do the Chens and Ian blame for the kidnapping of John Chen?

4. Who introduces Bartlett to Orlanda Ramos?

5. Who is Paul Havergill?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Tsu-yan?

2. What is Sinclair Towers?

3. Briefly describe how Ian plans to make money in the stock market.

4. What evidence is there that Kwok is a Chinese mole?

5. Why did Casey tell Ian Dunross that the deal between Ian and Bartlett was off?

6. What does the half-coin that was missing represent to Phillip Chen?

7. What is the Philby incident?

8. When Gornt is at the stock exchange what does he decide to do with regards to Ho-Pak and Struan stock?

9. As part of the procedure for becoming the tai-pan of Noble House, the new tai-pan must take a pledge and swear to what?

10. What did the existence of Soviet spy ring in Hong Kong suggest to the police?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the purpose of a prologue in the literary sense: Why does a book have a prologue? Is it always necessary? Then discuss the purpose of the prologue in this book, which occurs three years before the action begins and describes the secret ceremony where Ian Dunross becomes tai-pan.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the gun-smuggling incident. What is its significance? Did it start a chain of events? If so, explain the chain of events.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following characters: Lincoln Bartlett, Casey Tcholok, or Paul Choy. Discuss how that character developed through the novel. Include any specific event or encounter that was a catalyst for change.

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