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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. When May-may learns she will survive the malaria, what does she contemplate doing but decides against?
(a) Marrying Dirk.
(b) Becoming a nun.
(c) Becoming Christian.
(d) Becoming a nurse.

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

3. Who sent Monsey to Hong Kong?
(a) Dirk.
(b) The Queen of England.
(c) Longstaff.
(d) Whalen.

4. What is Horatio ranting about during the storm?
(a) Dirk's plan to marry May-may.
(b) Mary's abortion.
(c) The opium trade.
(d) Tess's marriage to Culum.

5. Where does Brock plan to ride out the storm?
(a) In the emperor's palace.
(b) On the White Witch.
(c) At Dirk's house.
(d) At Dirk's factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Culum tell Brock gave him the idea to elope with Tess?

2. Why do some people believe the storm in Chapter 47 isn't a typhoon?

3. Who finds the bodies of Dirk and May-may?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 48, what is falling rapidly?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. After the typhoon, how does Skinner plan to publish the next issue of his paper?

6. Why does Gorth go to the English club looking for Dirk?

7. 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?

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

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

10. In Chapter 47, why does Dirk move May-may and the others to his factory in Happy Valley?

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