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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. 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.

2. What does Liza beg Brock to recognize Culum as?
(a) His rival.
(b) His better.
(c) Tai pan.
(d) Tess's husband.

3. What does Dirk do while he waits for word about the missing Culum?
(a) Prays.
(b) Tries to work.
(c) Searches the streets for Culum.
(d) Visits a whorehouse.

4. Who finds the bodies of Dirk and May-may?
(a) Mary.
(b) Orlov.
(c) Brock.
(d) Culum.

5. In Chapter 40, for how many more days does Dirk tell May-may she has to drink the tea?
(a) One.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent Monsey to Hong Kong?

2. In Chapter 37, who is the letter from that Culum delivers to Dirk?

3. Where is the bishop's palace?

4. What does the British government plan to do with Longstaff?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. May-may presents Yin-hsi to Dirk as a birthday gift. What is the real reason she gives the girl to Dirk?

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

7. Why does Wu Kwok have Scragger killed?

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

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

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

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