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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Monsey been instructed to sail regardless of?
(a) Longstaff's answer.
(b) The weather.
(c) The ship's cargo.
(d) The condition of the ship.

2. Who finds the bodies of Dirk and May-may?
(a) Culum.
(b) Mary.
(c) Orlov.
(d) Brock.

3. What does Dirk set up a partnership with Cooper to trade?
(a) Tea.
(b) Chinese slaves.
(c) Opium.
(d) Cinchona bark.

4. In Chapter 47, what fails to fall before the storm?
(a) Rain.
(b) A windmill.
(c) The barometer.
(d) The Chinese flag.

5. Who sent Monsey to Hong Kong?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) Dirk.
(d) Whalen.

6. Who does Dirk bring to the factory to ride out the storm?
(a) Jin-qua.
(b) Brock.
(c) His crew and naval personnel.
(d) Tess and Culum.

7. What is the bark that might cure May-may but might also be a wives' tale?
(a) Poplar bark.
(b) Cherry tree bark.
(c) Cinchona bark.
(d) Eucalyptus bark.

8. Who rings up a bill at the whorehouse that Dirk agrees to pay one last time?
(a) Aristotle Quance.
(b) May-may.
(c) Cooper.
(d) Culum.

9. Who does Dirk sail to Aberdeen to meet at midnight?
(a) Shevuan.
(b) May-may.
(c) Cooper.
(d) Scragger.

10. What does Skinner's editorial urge the traders to do?
(a) Leave China.
(b) Purchase tea.
(c) Discredit Cunningham.
(d) Purchase opium.

11. 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.

12. What name does Dirk suggest for the new town in Hong Kong?
(a) London Town.
(b) Victoria.
(c) New England.
(d) Elizabeth.

13. In Chapter 50, who suggests to Culum that they join their houses?
(a) Brock.
(b) Gorth.
(c) May-may.
(d) Jin-qua.

14. Who does Dirk want to introduce Zergeyev around Washington, D.C.?
(a) Longstaff.
(b) Tillman.
(c) Shevaun.
(d) Cooper.

15. What did the British government want Longstaff to take instead of Hong Kong?
(a) Mainland China.
(b) Control of all Chinese trade.
(c) Canton.
(d) Five or six Chinese ports.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dirk returns from the English Club following the duel challenge, who is waiting for him at his home?

2. Where does Brock plan to ride out the storm?

3. What does Dirk decide to do with May-may in Chapter 44?

4. Who does Dirk tell Brock is to blame for drugging Culum and taking him to a whorehouse?

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

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