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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 invented the story of the Nine Tripod's possible link to the site?
(a) Lily.
(b) Brian.
(c) Ma.
(d) Catherine.

2. What does David suspect Zai knew?
(a) Brian's murderer.
(b) Where the fungus originated.
(c) Lily's murderer.
(d) Xiao Da's identity.

3. What meeting is Captain Hom going to attend?
(a) The Three Gorges Dam Security.
(b) None.
(c) The All Patriotic Society.
(d) The Yu preservation society.

4. Why does Miller have a sexual relationship with Lily?
(a) Miller says he was not involved with Lily sexually.
(b) He's been in love with her for a long time.
(c) They just fell into it and planned to marry.
(d) Business.

5. What does Angela think her brother may have found?
(a) A famous mushroom.
(b) A new style of Oriental archetecture.
(c) A heretofore unknown subculture.
(d) An artifact dating to the third century B.C.E.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is David shocked to learn about the ruyis?

2. Whom does David recognize at Cosgrove's auction?

3. How much does the ruyi fetch at auction?

4. How does Lily use Wu?

5. With what does Brian become obsessed?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does David meet at Cosgrove's? What does David tell this person? What is this person's response?

2. What happens to David right after the auction? Who helps him?

3. What does David see Ma and Fitzwilliams doing, and what does Ma ask David to do?

4. What does Hulan do with Michael after she leaves Hom, and what does he tell her?

5. How does Michael act during dinner with Hulan, and what does he talk about?

6. What does Stuart tell David about the ruyi, and what does David realize about Michael Quon?

7. What does Hulan finally realize about the courtyard? What does she ask Angela to do?

8. With whom does David sit during the auction? What is explained to David? Who bids on the ruyi?

9. With what does Brian become obsessed, and what does he realize about the geographic layout of the land at Site 518?

10. Where do Hulan and Michael go after lunch, and what does she hear? What does Michael do?

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