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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 44, what is the only reason Dirk will allow himself to be disturbed when he returns home?
(a) For an emergency.
(b) For Culum.
(c) For the emperor.
(d) For May-may.

2. Who does Culum accuse Dirk of using Culum and Tess's elopement to provoke?
(a) May-may.
(b) Robb.
(c) Gorth.
(d) Brock.

3. In Chapter 49, what does Dirk order Orlov to do?
(a) Turn the China Cloud around.
(b) Murder Gorth.
(c) Purchase opium.
(d) Sail to Peru.

4. How is the bark to cure her of malaria given to May-may.
(a) In a tablet.
(b) In a powder.
(c) In a tea.
(d) In a syrup.

5. Who gives Culum the idea to elope with Tess?
(a) Brock.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Liza.
(d) May-may.

6. What is Brock planning to do with Dirk when he summons him to the knoll?
(a) Sell him the knoll.
(b) Fight to the death.
(c) Make a deal with him.
(d) Demand money.

7. Who does Dirk tell Brock is to blame for drugging Culum and taking him to a whorehouse?
(a) Tess.
(b) Gorth.
(c) Robb.
(d) May-may.

8. Who does May-may send to talk to Mary Sinclair?
(a) Ti-sen.
(b) Jin-qua.
(c) Ah-Gip.
(d) Her elder sister.

9. At the knoll, what lie does Dirk tell Brock about Tess?
(a) That she is dead.
(b) That she is poxed.
(c) That she is not Brock's daughter.
(d) That she married Dirk.

10. What did the British government want Longstaff to take instead of Hong Kong?
(a) Five or six Chinese ports.
(b) Control of all Chinese trade.
(c) Mainland China.
(d) Canton.

11. Who is the leader of the Triads in Macao?
(a) Chen Sheng.
(b) Ti-sen.
(c) Gordon Chen.
(d) Jin-qua.

12. What does Brock apologize to Dirk for when they are at the knoll together?
(a) Tess and Culum's marriage.
(b) Gorth's behavior and summoning Dirk to the knoll.
(c) Tricking him.
(d) Nothing.

13. When Dirk arrives at the harbor master's office, where are Tess and Culum?
(a) On the White Witch.
(b) At church.
(c) In the harbor master's office.
(d) At Dirk's factory.

14. Where do Culum and Dirk agree to have dinner together in Chapter 41?
(a) The club.
(b) Dirk's house.
(c) At Tess and Culum's house.
(d) Brock's house.

15. What happens to Dirk's factory during the second round of the storm?
(a) The roof blows off.
(b) All of the windows are blown out.
(c) It stands strong.
(d) The western wall crumbles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May-may buy Dirk for his birthday?

2. Who rings up a bill at the whorehouse that Dirk agrees to pay one last time?

3. In Chapter 47, what fails to fall before the storm?

4. What does the bishop tell Dirk he owes the church for the bark to cure May-may?

5. When May-may learns she will survive the malaria, what does she contemplate doing but decides against?

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