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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27 - Author's Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Nine Tripods of Yu the Great?
(a) To create a visual map of Yu's empire.
(b) To triangulate a fix among the moon, sun and earth.
(c) To find the exact center of the earth.
(d) To hold up various relics he created.

2. What does Hulan realize when Michael brings up her daughter?
(a) David did all he could for their daughter.
(b) David was as affected by their daughter's death as she was.
(c) She did all she could for her daughter.
(d) The issue has never been her daughter.

3. Who does Hulan go to see regarding her new assignment?
(a) Tsong.
(b) Fong.
(c) Wi Fang.
(d) We Lu.

4. Who is noted to have control over floods in the Chinese past?
(a) Manchu Qing.
(b) Yu Ming.
(c) Yu the Great.
(d) Confucius.

5. With whom does David walk around the auction?
(a) Stuart Miller.
(b) Fitzwilliams.
(c) Hulan.
(d) Ma.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Brian become obsessed?

2. What is branding, cutting off the feet, cutting off the nose, castration, and death?

3. Who is Liu Hulan?

4. Who disappears from the middle of the courtyard and remarried during the Revolution?

5. What did Hulan once fail to do?

(see the answer key)

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