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

2. With whom did Brian talk one on one?
(a) Tang.
(b) Stuart Miller.
(c) Xiao da.
(d) Ma.

3. Why is Tang furious?
(a) He lost the bid.
(b) He thinks Fitzwilliams failed to acknowledge Tang's last bid.
(c) He thinks Miller overmuscled him.
(d) He thinks Fitzwilliams wanted the ruyi to go to the winner rather than Tang.

4. What does Tang do to David?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Takes him and dumps him far away from the city.
(c) Beats him up.
(d) Stabs him.

5. How could David be helping his wife?
(a) By going with Ma back to Site 518.
(b) By getting the Chinese government involved in the artifact auction.
(c) By befriending Fitzwilliams.
(d) By keeping the ruyi and other artifacts in China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Angela's occupation?

2. What is swelling mold?

3. Whom does Brian tease as he passes their home in search of more relics?

4. What does Brian write to Angela?

5. What does David suspect Zai knew?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David learn from Brian's journal?

2. What does Hulan know about her and David after he leaves for Hong Kong and what does she resolve to do?

3. What does Hulan learn from Hom about what he plans to do and why he plans to do it?

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

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

6. What does David show to Wu's widow? What do David and the widow do? What does she offer David?

7. What does Angela say about Brian's notebook? What does she think about his death? What does Hulan ask her to do?

8. What does Hulan ask Stuart about after David leaves for Hong Kong, and what does he tell her about Lily and about himself and artifacts?

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

10. What does the gate watcher at the compound tell Hulan?

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