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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do all of the traders decide to go if they are attacked by the Chinese?
(a) Dirk's ship.
(b) Dirk's factory.
(c) Brock's factory.
(d) Brock's ship.

2. Who instructs Gordon Chen to do whatever May-may wants?
(a) Mary Sinclair.
(b) Wu Kwok.
(c) Culum.
(d) Jin-qua.

3. In Dirk's dispatch to Robb, what does he instruct Robb to do in Hong Kong?
(a) Buy as much land as possible.
(b) Befriend Brock.
(c) Take a ship back to England.
(d) Murder Gorth.

4. What kind of a ship do Dirk and Culum see from the mountain?
(a) A steam-powered battleship.
(b) A clipper ship.
(c) A pirate ship.
(d) A lorcha.

5. Who is the officer on Brock's boat that wants to marry Tess?
(a) Jeff Cooper.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) Mauss.
(d) Nygreck Thumb.

6. How many nights of sleep does Culum lose over the knoll incident?
(a) Zero nights.
(b) Five nights.
(c) One night.
(d) Two nights.

7. Who is known as the Tai-Pan of Tai Ping Shan?
(a) Jin-qua.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Longstaff.
(d) Gordon Chen.

8. What do Dirk and Culum press Brock to grant Culum?
(a) The rights to the knoll.
(b) Access to Brock's records.
(c) A quick marriage to Tess.
(d) A position in Brock's company.

9. Who buys the knoll to build a church?
(a) Robb.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Gorth.
(d) Culum.

10. Where do the British plan to attack in Chapter 27?
(a) Russia.
(b) Happy Valley.
(c) Canton and Peking.
(d) Aberdeen.

11. Which European woman is pregnant with a Chinese child?
(a) Liza Brock.
(b) Shevaun.
(c) Tess Brock.
(d) Mary Sinclair.

12. In what village does Dirk wait for Wu Kwok?
(a) Yangtze.
(b) Canton.
(c) Happy Valley.
(d) Aberdeen.

13. As they are standing in the square waiting for Ti-sen to be sentenced, whom does Dirk stop from talking to the crowd?
(a) Mauss.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) Culum.
(d) Cooper.

14. When Dirk returns home after the ball, who is waiting for him in his living room?
(a) Culum.
(b) May-may.
(c) The bishop.
(d) Jin-qua.

15. What does Dirk insist Culum begin to do regularly?
(a) Travel to England.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Visit him.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom is May-May waiting in Dirk's quarters when he returns from his first meeting with Jin-qua?

2. What kind of epidemic sweeps through Queens Town?

3. What trade does Zergeyev offer Dirk as a monopoly in Russia?

4. How long is the indenture agreement for the men who arrive with Captain Scragger?

5. Why do Robb and Liza leave the ball?

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