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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 May-may buy Dirk for his birthday?
(a) A clipper ship.
(b) A Chinese girl.
(c) A new suit.
(d) An expensive bottle of whiskey.

2. In Chapter 33, who tells Dirk they cannot find the bark?
(a) Gordon Chen.
(b) Culum.
(c) Longstaff.
(d) The bishop.

3. Who rings up a bill at the whorehouse that Dirk agrees to pay one last time?
(a) Aristotle Quance.
(b) Culum.
(c) Cooper.
(d) May-may.

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

5. Who do the authorities learn is the leader of the Triads in Hong Kong when they capture the assassin?
(a) Gordon Chen.
(b) Wu Kwok.
(c) Brock.
(d) Ti-sen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the secret report Dirk finds in the briefcase that worries him?

2. In Chapter 34, who finds out that Mary Sinclair took herbs to cause an abortion?

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

4. Who is upset by the article in the Oriental Times?

5. What is Brock planning to do with Dirk when he summons him to the knoll?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gordon Chen plan to hide the fact that he is the leader of the Triads in Hong Kong from Dirk after Dirk confronts him about whether he is a leader?

2. How is the White Witch damaged in Chapter 45?

3. Why do the Russians feel they must control China?

4. Why does Dirk think Culum should spend more time with Jeff Cooper.

5. What does Dirk think is the reason Culum cannot remember where he was in Macao?

6. When Dirk and Brock meet to fight at the knoll, why do they begin to talk about the weather?

7. Why is May-may angry at the assassin who named Gordon Chen as the leader of the Triads?

8. What does May-may say will happen to Yin-hsi if Dirk sends her away?

9. What does Dirk hope the information he leaks for the article in the Oriental Times will do?

10. In Chapter 49, why does Zergeyev think the Russians will now be able to dominate China?

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