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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Chu Ching?
(a) China's historical text.
(b) A map dating from the Han dynasty.
(c) An artifact dating from the Ming dynasty.
(d) A map of some underground excavations.

3. From what did Chaowen die?
(a) Polio.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Meningitis.

4. Who is cocky as Hulan begins the interview?
(a) Michael.
(b) Stuart.
(c) Li Guo.
(d) Brian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine say regarding Stuart?

2. Who is Brian's supervisor?

3. Which modern ruler(s) of China possessed symbols of power?

4. Why will the land be inundated in the future?

5. How does Hulan surprise David in their guest house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Ma first introduce David and Liu to and what does this man tell them?

2. Who is Hulan required to visit in Chapter 2, and what does he tell her to do?

3. What does Hulan do after receiving her first assignment in Chapter 1?

4. What does Hulan find out when she interviews Catherine about Lily's death?

5. Who does Hulan interview about Lily?

6. Where do David, Hulan, and Ma go in Chapter 6? What do they see there?

7. Who meets the couple at Bashan, and what does he tell them as he takes them to their lodgings?

8. What has happened to Lily when David and Liu find her in her bedroom?

9. Who do Liu and David meet at lunch the first day in Bashan?

10. What is Liu Hulan doing at the opening of Chapter 1?

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