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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does May-may order to join Dirk in his bed?
2. Who fills May-may in on everything that happened while she was ill?
3. What does Dirk tell Culum and Tess they are a part of regardless of what Brock says?
4. Whom does Culum ask to take care of the funeral arrangements for Dirk and May-may?
5. Who rings up a bill at the whorehouse that Dirk agrees to pay one last time?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Dirk remind Gorth that it is against the law to murder a prostitute?
2. How will Dirk and the others know when the eye of the storm is centered over Hong Kong?
3. In Chapter 47, why does Dirk move May-may and the others to his factory in Happy Valley?
4. What does Dirk think is the reason Culum cannot remember where he was in Macao?
5. Why does Dirk think Culum should spend more time with Jeff Cooper.
6. Why is May-may angry at the assassin who named Gordon Chen as the leader of the Triads?
7. Why does Gorth go to the English club looking for Dirk?
8. Why does Whalen send Monsey to Hong Kong to tell Longstaff he must leave?
9. In Chapter 49, why does Zergeyev think the Russians will now be able to dominate China?
10. Why does Dirk instruct Gordon Chen to form a spy system?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the importance of Hong Kong to the Chinese and to the British? How do the traders feel about the possession of Hong Kong?
Essay Topic 2
Why is the marriage of Tess and Culum so important to both Dirk and Brock? What do each of them stand to gain by either ensuring the marriage happens or preventing it from happening until a specific time? What effect does the marriage ultimately have on the two houses?
Essay Topic 3
What examples of marriage are portrayed in Tai-Pan? What seems to be the overall view of marriage based on these examples? Does the author use marriages with a purpose in mind? What is the purpose?
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