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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Stuart do if he comes across stolen items with forged papers?
(a) Buy them and donate them to a Chinese museum.
(b) Turn them over to the Chinese authorities.
(c) Buy them.
(d) Refuse to have anything to do with them.

2. From whom does Hulan take control of the murder scene?
(a) Captain Hom.
(b) Sargent Ju.
(c) Lieutenant Wong.
(d) Captain Wu.

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

4. Which modern ruler(s) of China possessed symbols of power?
(a) Just Mao.
(b) None.
(c) Just Xiao Da.
(d) Mao and Xiao Da.

5. What is the relation of the local police captain to the bridge contractor?
(a) Brother.
(b) Close friend.
(c) Brother-in-law.
(d) Cousin.

6. Who are the vultures?
(a) Five Chinese representatives from various museums.
(b) The heads of the various factions in the All Political Society.
(c) The Chinese Communist party representatives in this area.
(d) The raptors in this area.

7. What does Lily not want to reveal in front of the others?
(a) Her husband caught her in bed with McCarthy.
(b) Her relation to Brian McCarthy.
(c) She is sleeping with several men on the site.
(d) She is quitting the project.

8. About what does Hulan instruct the local officials?
(a) How to interview the hotel staff.
(b) How to take forensic pictures.
(c) How to be firm yet accomodating to the foreigners.
(d) How to preserve evidence.

9. What does Tang Wenting say she is there to do?
(a) Kill Chairman Mao.
(b) Kill Hulan.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Punish her child.

10. When does Hulan denounce her father?
(a) At age 15.
(b) At age 21.
(c) At age 12.
(d) She refuses to denounce him.

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

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

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

14. Who is Lily Sinclair?
(a) A worker for the Cosgrove's auction house.
(b) A Chinese philologist.
(c) David's girlfriend before he married Hulan.
(d) The head archeologist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine do when Hulan interviews her?

2. Who is Liu Hulan?

3. About what organization does Hulan repeatedly ask?

4. What does Stuart like to own?

5. What is Hulan noted as being?

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