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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does David go while Hulan is interviewing the foreigners?
(a) To the guest house.
(b) To write up a report for the American embassy.
(c) To the site.
(d) To notify Lily's next of kin.

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

3. For whom does Hulan send?
(a) A mortician.
(b) A diplomat.
(c) An officer.
(d) A pathologist.

4. About what organization does Hulan repeatedly ask?
(a) The All Patriotic Society.
(b) The Society for Chinese Nationalism.
(c) The Society for the Advancement of Artifact Preservation.
(d) None.

5. What does David decide to do?
(a) Fly to Hong Kong to stop the auction.
(b) Return to Beijing and his practice.
(c) Fly to the States to tell Lily's parents of her death.
(d) Disassociate himself with Hulan.

6. What did Hulan once fail to do?
(a) Save 50 female factory workers.
(b) Save 150 female factory workers.
(c) Save 150 female rice gatherers.
(d) Save 50 miners.

7. The vultures think the stolen ruyi is at ______________.
(a) A museum in England.
(b) Cosgrove's.
(c) They have no idea.
(d) Sotheby's.

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

9. Where does Wu drown?
(a) The company swimming pool.
(b) The Three Gorges Dam.
(c) A local whirlpool.
(d) The Yangtze River.

10. Who is Dr. Zhongyan?
(a) David's law partner.
(b) The leader of the local group of the All Patriotic Society.
(c) The leader of Site 518 excavation.
(d) Hulan's uncle.

11. How does Hulan accidentally kill Tang Wenting?
(a) Hulan shoots Wenting in the shoulder, but a bone fragment cuts the carotid.
(b) She is shooting at some thieves and hits Wenting.
(c) Hulan intended to kill Wenting.
(d) She struggles with Wenting for the knife and it cuts Wenting's femoral artery.

12. What does Catherine say regarding Stuart?
(a) She saw him leaving Lily's room early that morning.
(b) She saw him with Lily late last night.
(c) He was packing his bags earlier that day.
(d) What Stuart would be purchasing at the Cosgrove's auction.

13. With whom does Hulan make a deal five years earlier?
(a) A group of high-powered political figures in Korea.
(b) A group of high-powered political figures in Japan.
(c) A group of high-powered political figures in the United States.
(d) A group of high-powered political figures who rule China.

14. Who is Yu the Great?
(a) A figure of legend.
(b) The ruler of Szechun at the time of the book.
(c) The ruler of China at the time of the book.
(d) A magistrate who has the Chairman's ear.

15. Who thinks the foreigners are to blame for the artifact thefts?
(a) No one.
(b) Angela.
(c) Ma.
(d) All the vultures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is David on his way to?

2. What does Michael Quon admit to Hulan?

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

4. Of what does Li Gou remind David?

5. What does the young boy who kicks the body think?

(see the answer keys)

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