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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Chapter 1 - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the All Patriotic Society?
(a) An illegal religious organization.
(b) A foreign religious faction that espouses Christianity.
(c) The group of workers who keep Tienanmen Square maintained.
(d) An organization Mao Tse Tung created.

2. Why will the land be inundated in the future?
(a) There will be a volcanic eruption some time soon.
(b) They are going to flood the land with just a few inches of water to make rice paddies.
(c) It is not going to be inundated, but rather become a desert.
(d) The Chinese are building a land at the Three Gorges.

3. To what is Hulan being assigned?
(a) To investigate the All Patriotic Society.
(b) To Hunan province.
(c) To Hong Kong criminal investigations.
(d) To investigate the death of a foreigner.

4. Who is Vie Minister Zai?
(a) Hulan's uncle.
(b) Hulan's brother.
(c) A father figure to Hulan.
(d) Hulan's grandfather.

5. What does the narrator say will be a great achievement?
(a) Stopping the oncoming lava flow.
(b) The narrator does not mention a great achievement.
(c) The Three Gorges Dam.
(d) The body reaching its burial spot intact.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hulan work?

2. What is Hulan's husband doing as she is in Tienanmen Square?

3. What is the reason for the assignement of David and Hulan to the same case?

4. Who is Brian McCarthy?

5. When does Hulan denounce her father?

(see the answer key)

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