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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 Hulan find when she searches Brian's room?
(a) A diary.
(b) A cassette tape.
(c) No personal effects.
(d) A video tape.

2. Whom does Miller say will be blamed if the dam fails?
(a) The Chinese will not admit failure.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) The Chinese government.
(d) The local province officals.

3. Whom does David realize is now in danger?
(a) Hulan.
(b) Ma.
(c) Angela.
(d) Miller.

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

5. With whom is Michael fascinated?
(a) Hulan.
(b) Da Yu.
(c) Stuart Miller.
(d) David.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David convince Stuart to do?

2. What does the ruyi prove?

3. Why is David in a hurry to get to Bashan?

4. What does Brian write to Angela?

5. What link did Brian possibly discover?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Stuart say to Hulan about the dam?

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

4. Why is Tang angry at the end of the bidding for the ruyi? What does he do, and what does David realize about Tang? What does David do when Tang leaves the auction?

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

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

7. Who is David surprised to find at the auction and what does he do with him?

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

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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