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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 253-269.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hong do with the letters from Ye Pan and the one from Meng Dafu?
(a) Drops them overboard.
(b) Eats them.
(c) Burns them.
(d) Hides them under his hat.

2. Who is Gao Shi?
(a) Ding's best friend whose name is on the list.
(b) The chief examiner who offers to be Chen's mentor.
(c) The prefect of the examiners.
(d) Hong's contact in the White Lotus.

3. Who is Yao?
(a) The cabin boy on the sailing vessel.
(b) A soldier in the Emperor's army.
(c) Another scholar Hong and Chen encounter.
(d) A boy Hong shares confinement with at the pirate camp.

4. What happens when the ship is traveling on an especially treacherous stretch of the river?
(a) The first mate falls overboard and drowns.
(b) Lin Shi's daughter is knocked overboard.
(c) The ship springs a leak and they have to off load.
(d) Lin Shi is knocked overboard.

5. What does the magistrate say will happen the next day?
(a) The boys will be whipped publicly.
(b) The boys will be hung.
(c) The boys will be released after a messenger goes to their village.
(d) The boys will be fined and let go.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the two boys intend to go there?

2. What happens to Hong's money?

3. Why is Bao angry with Hong?

4. What is significant about the town of Qufu?

5. What does Hong agree to do?

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