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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hong worry about as he and Chen are walking?
(a) Whether Chen will listen to him.
(b) The locusts he sees on the crops.
(c) The many soldiers on the road.
(d) The many old men and women who are beggars.

2. What does Shen praise in his talk with Chen?
(a) Chen's choice of essay topics.
(b) Chen's decision to bribe the examiners.
(c) Chen's handwriting.
(d) Chen's decision not to bribe the examiners.

3. Why are Chen and Hong in the custody of the magistrate?
(a) He thinks the letter Chen is carrying is about treason.
(b) Someone said the boys were taking rice out of the paddies.
(c) He thinks the letter Hong is carrying is about treason.
(d) He is suspicious of Chen being a charlaton.

4. What has Meng agreed to do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Stay with Lao Chen's father when Lao Chen leaves the village.
(c) Stake a large prize in a cricket fighting contest.
(d) Take care of Lao Chen's grandmother.

5. Who does Master Fei Qun visit?
(a) Lu.
(b) Chen.
(c) Hong.
(d) Tong.

6. What has Chen done as a result of his mother's tutelage?
(a) Written a musical score for the emperor.
(b) Taught his cousin how to read and write.
(c) Passed the first government examination for a position.
(d) Created new strains of roses.

7. What is the relation between Lao Hong and Lao Chen?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are best friends.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are brother and sister.

8. Who is Bao?
(a) Chen's older sister.
(b) Chen's grandmother.
(c) Chen's youngest sister.
(d) Chen's neighbor.

9. Where do Chen and Hong tell Lao Lu they intend to go?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Szechan.
(c) Chengdu.
(d) Jaoung.

10. To whom does Zhu Tong ask Hong to deliver a letter?
(a) Ma.
(b) Zeyong.
(c) Wang.
(d) Wong.

11. What does Chen decide about Confucius?
(a) He would not sit for these exams.
(b) He would think bribing is acceptable.
(c) He would not pass these exams.
(d) He would not approve of trying to bribe someone.

12. What does Fei Qun ask of the person he visits?
(a) To talk to Bao about marriage.
(b) To apprentice to him as the next school master.
(c) Nothing; he's just saying goodbye.
(d) To take a letter with him.

13. To whom does Zhu Tong speak as an equal?
(a) Lu.
(b) Bao.
(c) Chen.
(d) Hong.

14. What does Hong learn about Ye Pan?
(a) He makes his own puppets.
(b) He lives very near their own village.
(c) He passed the exams at the top of his class.
(d) He is a barber.

15. What does the magistrate not believe?
(a) That Hong is a soldier.
(b) That the boys are going to Beijing.
(c) That Hong is a scholar.
(d) That Chen is a scholar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Hong and Chen doing at the opening to this section?

2. Who are Fire Star and Dragon Legs?

3. What does the magistrate say will happen the next day?

4. For what is Lao Hong known?

5. Where are Chen and Ding's names on the list that is first posted?

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