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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 new suit.
(b) A clipper ship.
(c) An expensive bottle of whiskey.
(d) A Chinese girl.

2. When does Brock tell Dirk he will have anything to do with Tess and Culum after they are married?
(a) When Culum is tai-pan.
(b) Never.
(c) When Tess has her first child.
(d) When Brock is tai-pan.

3. According to May-may, how did she hear of Yin-hsi?
(a) From Jin-qua's Tai-Tai.
(b) Through an ad.
(c) From Mary Sinclair.
(d) At a whorehouse.

4. Who does Dirk ask to be Tai-Tai?
(a) Ah-Sam.
(b) Ah-Gip.
(c) Wu Kwok.
(d) May-may.

5. What does Skinner's editorial urge the traders to do?
(a) Purchase opium.
(b) Purchase tea.
(c) Leave China.
(d) Discredit Cunningham.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gordon respond to Dirk when Dirk asks him if he is the leader of the Triads in Hong Kong.

3. In Chapter 49, what does Dirk order Orlov to do?

4. When Dirk arrives at the harbor master's office, where are Tess and Culum?

5. In Chapter 45, where does Brock ask Dirk to meet him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Whalen send Monsey to Hong Kong to tell Longstaff he must leave?

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

9. Why does Dirk want to send Father Sebastian to Peru?

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

(see the answer keys)

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