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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. According to the documents in the briefcase, who will be in position to take control of China in five years?
2. Who finds the bodies of Dirk and May-may?
3. Who does Dirk remind there are laws against murder when Culum is missing?
4. What is Aristotle the first to call Culum?
5. What does Dirk tell Culum and Tess they are a part of regardless of what Brock says?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gordon Chen plan to hide the fact that he is the leader of the Triads in Hong Kong from Dirk after Dirk confronts him about whether he is a leader?
2. What does Dirk think is the reason Culum cannot remember where he was in Macao?
3. How will Dirk and the others know when the eye of the storm is centered over Hong Kong?
4. Why does Dirk lie to Brock about Tess and Culum being poxed?
5. Why is May-may angry at the assassin who named Gordon Chen as the leader of the Triads?
6. Why does Dirk think Culum should spend more time with Jeff Cooper.
7. In Chapter 47, why does Dirk move May-may and the others to his factory in Happy Valley?
8. Why does Dirk think the bishop might have cinchona bark?
9. Why does Whalen send Monsey to Hong Kong to tell Longstaff he must leave?
10. During the storm, how does one of Dirk's sailors die?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do Dirk and Brock decide to form their uneasy truce? What leads to the truce? Why is it important for these two characters to come to some sort of understanding? What might have happened if they had not called a truce?
Essay Topic 2
What changes does Culum undergo through the course of the novel? What causes the changes? Is he truly ready to be tai pan at the close of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
What views of women are presented in this book? How do May-may, Mary Sinclair, Liza, and Tess represent those views?
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