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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the amount of the ransom that the British receive for Canton?
(a) 6 million taels.
(b) 5,000 pounds.
(c) 1 million pounds.
(d) 3 million taels.

2. Dirk learns that the Turks opened up what empire for British trade?
(a) The Indian Empire.
(b) The Japanese Empire.
(c) The Spanish Empire.
(d) The Ottoman Empire.

3. Who volunteers to judge the ball gown after Quance leaves?
(a) Zergeyev.
(b) Brock.
(c) Liza.
(d) Culum.

4. Who does Dirk say is responsible for repaying Jin-qua's loan?
(a) Robb.
(b) Himself.
(c) The Noble House.
(d) Culum.

5. Who is the officer on Brock's boat that wants to marry Tess?
(a) Mauss.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) Jeff Cooper.
(d) Nygreck Thumb.

6. What kind of a ship do Dirk and Culum see from the mountain?
(a) A lorcha.
(b) A clipper ship.
(c) A steam-powered battleship.
(d) A pirate ship.

7. What ship did Dirk and Brock both work on as teenagers?
(a) The Resting Cloud.
(b) The Vagrant Star.
(c) The White Witch.
(d) The China Cloud.

8. The emperor offers Wu Fang Choi mandarinates if he attacks what?
(a) Canton.
(b) Dirk's fleet.
(c) The Russian archduke.
(d) Hong Kong harbor.

9. Who replaces Ah-Gip as May-may's servant?
(a) Mary Sinclair.
(b) Ah-sam.
(c) Mai-chen.
(d) Ti-sen.

10. Who halts all trade between the Chinese and the foreigners?
(a) Dirk.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) The Chinese emperor.
(d) The British government.

11. Who is May-may?
(a) Dirk's mistress.
(b) Dirk's wife.
(c) Brock's mistress.
(d) A Chinese pirate.

12. What group is not being forced out of the settlement?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The British.
(d) The Russians.

13. What does Dirk insist Culum begin to do regularly?
(a) Travel to England.
(b) Visit him.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Go to church.

14. When Dirk returns home after the ball, who is waiting for him in his living room?
(a) The bishop.
(b) May-may.
(c) Jin-qua.
(d) Culum.

15. The Chinese call Straun and Company another name. What is it?
(a) The Great House.
(b) Ah-Gip.
(c) The Noble House.
(d) Tai-Pan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity will end the day of festivities?

2. Who does Dirk say did not cheat him but rather outsmarted him?

3. What signals the beginning of the evening of festivities?

4. When does Dirk leave May-may's room on the night of the ball?

5. What is Ti-sen wearing when he is brought into the square?

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