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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 226-253.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lin Shi decide Hong and Chen are doing?
(a) Running away from home.
(b) Going east to fight Japanese pirates.
(c) Looking for treasure.
(d) Being adventurous to see the world.

2. What are Hong and Chen doing at the opening to this section?
(a) Sleeping in the forest.
(b) Eating with Landlord Ma's family.
(c) Walking away from Landlord Ma's home.
(d) Entering Beijing.

3. What is one of the dangers of the river?
(a) Snags.
(b) Crocodiles.
(c) Sandbars.
(d) Pirates.

4. What happens when the ship is traveling on an especially treacherous stretch of the river?
(a) Lin Shi is knocked overboard.
(b) The ship springs a leak and they have to off load.
(c) The first mate falls overboard and drowns.
(d) Lin Shi's daughter is knocked overboard.

5. Where are Hong and Chen housed in Beijing?
(a) An old widow's home.
(b) In a tent in a field outside of the city.
(c) A small inn near the edge of the city.
(d) A village with other scholars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Chen and Hong cross the Yellow River?

2. What does Lin Shi refuse to believe?

3. What does the Magistrate decide to do to find out if the boys are who they say?

4. Why does Hong shake his walking stick at two men?

5. What are the customs officers doing?

(see the answer key)

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