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

2. How long does Dirk give Gordon to find out who the leader of the Triads in Hong Kong is?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three days.
(c) One year.
(d) One week.

3. Who secretly owns the Oriental Times?
(a) Brock.
(b) May-may.
(c) Longstaff.
(d) Dirk.

4. In Chapter 45, where does Brock ask Dirk to meet him?
(a) At the knoll.
(b) At the factory.
(c) At May-may's house.
(d) On the White Witch.

5. In Chapter 49, what does Dirk order Orlov to do?
(a) Turn the China Cloud around.
(b) Sail to Peru.
(c) Murder Gorth.
(d) Purchase opium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who left a briefcase with the bishop, which the bishop gives to Dirk?

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

3. Who threatens to charge Culum with treason if he doesn't deliver Dirk's papers to him?

4. Where is the bishop's palace?

5. What is Monsey sent to tell Longstaff?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Dirk remind Gorth that it is against the law to murder a prostitute?

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

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

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

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

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