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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. In Chapter 42, how many days ahead of Dirk's ship is Brock's ship on the way to England?
(a) Six days.
(b) One day.
(c) Five days.
(d) Three days.

2. Whom does Culum ask to take care of the funeral arrangements for Dirk and May-may?
(a) Brock.
(b) Vargas.
(c) Longstaff.
(d) Horatio.

3. What does Dirk offer the doctor if he can cure May-may?
(a) 20,000 taels of silver.
(b) 1 million bullion.
(c) 1,000 pounds.
(d) A permanent position as his company doctor.

4. Who does Dirk remind there are laws against murder when Culum is missing?
(a) Brock.
(b) Gorth.
(c) Longstaff.
(d) Wu Kwok.

5. What does Dirk tell Culum and Tess they are a part of regardless of what Brock says?
(a) Dirk's family.
(b) The British government.
(c) The Noble House.
(d) Brock's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Gordon angry about Dirk confronting him regarding the Triads?

2. Who do the authorities learn is the leader of the Triads in Hong Kong when they capture the assassin?

3. What has Monsey been instructed to sail regardless of?

4. Who fills May-may in on everything that happened while she was ill?

5. Where is the bishop's palace?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 41, why does Culum tell Liza she cannot take Tess back to her home?

2. Why does Dirk think the bishop might have cinchona bark?

3. Why does Richard Crosse go by the name Roger Blore?

4. During the storm, how does one of Dirk's sailors die?

5. At the end of the book, why does Gordon Chen think The Noble House is dead?

6. After May-may begins to recover from malaria, what does she tell Dirk she will do if he goes back to Hong Kong without her?

7. Why does Dirk lie to Brock about Tess and Culum being poxed?

8. What causes the wages and costs in Hong Kong to rise above Dirk's expectations?

9. How will Dirk and the others know when the eye of the storm is centered over Hong Kong?

10. Why does Wu Kwok have Scragger killed?

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