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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Michael Quon, why is he at the site?
(a) To see it before it is innundated.
(b) To supervise the finding of Chinese artifacts.
(c) As a representative for the Society fot eh Advancement of Artifact Preservation.
(d) As a representative of the Society for Chinese Nationalism.

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

5. What does Catherine do when Hulan interviews her?
(a) Refuses to answer any questions.
(b) Breaks down and sobs.
(c) Lies.
(d) Confesses to knowing the killer.

6. To what does the conversation shift when Hulan indicates she is investigating a murder?
(a) Site safety.
(b) Who wants the excavations to fail.
(c) Fate.
(d) Who hates whom.

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

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

9. What does the young boy who kicks the body think?
(a) It is a crocodile.
(b) It is just some debris.
(c) It is a shark.
(d) It is his friend with whom the boy is swimming.

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

11. What does Hulan stress to the Chinese workers as she informs them of Lily's murder?
(a) Chinese relies upon foreigners and these murders will hurt all Chinese.
(b) Any Chinese worker found to be involved will be executed.
(c) The fact that the United States has capital punishment.
(d) Their duty to help foreigners as a sign of superiority.

12. What does Hulan think about that night before going to sleep?
(a) The All Patriotic Society.
(b) Her husband returning to the United States.
(c) Moving to the United States.
(d) Her daughter.

13. Of what does Li Gou remind David?
(a) Lily was quite popular with the local Chinese people.
(b) Foreigners have the most to gain from stealing artifacts.
(c) Lily was in China somewhat illegally.
(d) Smuggling artifacts is simple.

14. Who is Stuart Miller?
(a) Owner of the company building the dam.
(b) A visitor to Tienanman Square.
(c) David's other law partner.
(d) A tourist Hulan and David meet.

15. What happens to the body as it floats down the river?
(a) It becomes more and more disfigured.
(b) It starts glowing.
(c) It turns yellow.
(d) It rotates on a regular basis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Stuart do if he comes across stolen items with forged papers?

2. Where does Hulan work?

3. Upon what do Hulan and David agree as they are talking at breakfast?

4. Who is Liu Hulan?

5. Where does Wu drown?

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