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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dirk want to do during his trip back to England?
(a) Sleep many hours.
(b) Attack the pirate fleet.
(c) Marry May-may.
(d) Send a letter to Zergeyev.

2. Who gives Culum the idea to elope with Tess?
(a) Brock.
(b) May-may.
(c) Dirk.
(d) Liza.

3. What is Monsey sent to tell Longstaff?
(a) To purchase tea seeds.
(b) To marry Mary Sinclair.
(c) To leave Hong Kong.
(d) To stay in Hong Kong.

4. Where do Culum and Tess stay in Macao after their wedding?
(a) The White Witch.
(b) Dirk's factory.
(c) The English Hotel.
(d) The Resting Cloud.

5. Who is the leader of the Triads in Macao?
(a) Chen Sheng.
(b) Jin-qua.
(c) Gordon Chen.
(d) Ti-sen.

6. At the beginning of Chapter 48, what is falling rapidly?
(a) Rain.
(b) The barometer.
(c) The price of tea.
(d) Hail.

7. Who fills May-may in on everything that happened while she was ill?
(a) Ah-Sam.
(b) Mary Sinclair.
(c) Ah-Gip.
(d) Dirk.

8. When the eye of the storm arrives, what does Horatio plan to see Glessing about?
(a) Glessing ending his engagement to Mary.
(b) Entering the opium trade.
(c) Assassinating Brock.
(d) Purchasing some land.

9. In Chapter 40, for how many more days does Dirk tell May-may she has to drink the tea?
(a) Seven.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

10. Who threatens to charge Culum with treason if he doesn't deliver Dirk's papers to him?
(a) Brock.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) Gorth.
(d) Orlov.

11. Whose body is discovered in an alley near Chinatown?
(a) Dirk's.
(b) Robb's.
(c) Gorth's.
(d) Culum's.

12. What is Aristotle the first to call Culum?
(a) Father.
(b) Mr. Straun.
(c) Tai-pan.
(d) Sir.

13. In Chapter 42, how many days ahead of Dirk's ship is Brock's ship on the way to England?
(a) One day.
(b) Five days.
(c) Six days.
(d) Three days.

14. At the knoll, what lie does Dirk tell Brock about Tess?
(a) That she is poxed.
(b) That she is not Brock's daughter.
(c) That she is dead.
(d) That she married Dirk.

15. While at the knoll, what do Dirk and Brock agree is coming?
(a) The death of Brock.
(b) The British army.
(c) The end of their trading days.
(d) A typhoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ship collides with the Boston Princess?

2. How is the bark to cure her of malaria given to May-may.

3. In Chapter 37, who is the letter from that Culum delivers to Dirk?

4. What does Dirk offer the doctor if he can cure May-may?

5. In Chapter 45, where does Brock ask Dirk to meet him?

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