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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hong expected to do if he is caught on a mission for the White Lotus?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Kill the arresting officers.
(d) Tell them misleading information.

2. Where is Meng Dafu?
(a) Suzhao.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Shenzhen.
(d) Wuhan.

3. Why do Hong and Chen leave in haste for Beijing?
(a) The river is flooded and it will be slow going.
(b) Yuying takes offense and tells her father.
(c) Meng wishes them to take a letter that needs to arrive quickly.
(d) The exams have been moved up.

4. What do Hong and Chen give two woman sitting near a farmhouse?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Advise.
(c) Rice.
(d) A bag of beans.

5. What happens after the boat leaves the port where it takes on some cargo?
(a) The boat loses its rudder.
(b) The boat can barely float as it has too much weight on it.
(c) The boat is attacked by pirates.
(d) The boat sinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hong get the message from Tang?

2. Who is deemed to be worth a high ransom?

3. Who is Meng Dafu?

4. What is significant about the town of Qufu?

5. What happens to Hong after Chen is taken away?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chen finally decide upon a position?

2. What happens when Hong goes to deliver his letter from Ye Pan?

3. What does Hong decide to do after Chen takes a position and what does Sun Qi give Hong?

4. How does Chen answer the final question on the examination, and why is troubled by it?

5. How far do the brothers take the Grand Canal, and what are they told at the end of it? What do they decide to do about the information?

6. What happens with Hong after he receives the message from Tang?

7. What does Chen do that ends his friendship with Yuying and what does she do about it?

8. Where does Hong go when he escapes the pirates and who helps him?

9. What happens when Hong visits a fortune teller?

10. What happens when Chen is invited out by three other scholars?

(see the answer keys)

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