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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. What does Dirk offer the doctor if he can cure May-may?
2. Where does the bishop say he was when the bark cured his malaria?
3. What is Aristotle the first to call Culum?
4. Who rings up a bill at the whorehouse that Dirk agrees to pay one last time?
5. Who does Dirk sail to Aberdeen to meet at midnight?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why does Dirk instruct Gordon Chen to form a spy system?
3. In Chapter 49, why does Zergeyev think the Russians will now be able to dominate China?
4. Why does Dirk think Culum should spend more time with Jeff Cooper.
5. Why do the Russians feel they must control China?
6. What does Dirk hope the information he leaks for the article in the Oriental Times will do?
7. In Chapter 47, why does Dirk move May-may and the others to his factory in Happy Valley?
8. After the typhoon, how does Skinner plan to publish the next issue of his paper?
9. During the storm, how does one of Dirk's sailors die?
10. How is the White Witch damaged in Chapter 45?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What views of women are presented in this book? How do May-may, Mary Sinclair, Liza, and Tess represent those views?
Essay Topic 2
What role do the church and religion play in Tai-Pan? How does Dirk feel about religion and the church? How does May-may feel about religion? Why does she consider converting to Christianity and why does she decide against conversion?
Essay Topic 3
Why do Dirk and Brock decide to form their uneasy truce? What leads to the truce? Why is it important for these two characters to come to some sort of understanding? What might have happened if they had not called a truce?
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