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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Chen offered after his examinations?
(a) A number of official positions.
(b) The governship of a province.
(c) Two thousand gold pieces.
(d) A position in the Emperor's library.

2. How is Hong dressed as he rides to the ceremonial tomb?
(a) As a Buddhist monk.
(b) As a scholar.
(c) As a pilgrim.
(d) As a soldier.

3. What does Chen tell Hong about the time of his captivity with the pirates?
(a) That they asked him to read to them.
(b) That he was sometimes beaten by the pirates.
(c) That they left him alone.
(d) That they fed him well.

4. Where is Meng Dafu?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Shenzhen.
(c) Wuhan.
(d) Suzhao.

5. What happens to Hong after Chen is taken away?
(a) He slips overboard and hides while hanging on the ladder.
(b) He is tied up.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He is knocked unconscious.

6. Why is Chen treated differently than the other passengers?
(a) His scholar robes.
(b) He is quite ill.
(c) He is very affable.
(d) He is not treated any differently.

7. Why does Hong shake his walking stick at two men?
(a) They are threatening a young woman.
(b) They want to rob him for food.
(c) They are threatening an elderly woman.
(d) They want Chen's robes.

8. Who searches the passengers of the boat?
(a) The Magistrate's soldiers.
(b) No one.
(c) The Captain.
(d) Pirates.

9. Who is impressed by Chen's robes?
(a) The pirates.
(b) The Captain's daughter.
(c) The sailors.
(d) No one.

10. Who is the highest ranking minister below the emperor?
(a) Yu Wang.
(b) Ni Wang.
(c) Yu Fi.
(d) Ni Fenglin.

11. What does General Ma want Hong to do?
(a) Accompany Chen to Beijing and recruit there.
(b) Become a soldier.
(c) Go back to his village and recruit others.
(d) Become a scout.

12. Why is General Ma disappointed with Hong?
(a) Hong wants to go back to farming.
(b) Hong does not choose to stay with the army.
(c) Hong thinks his brother is more important than himself.
(d) Hong could not save Yao.

13. Why does Hong decide he can now leave his brother?
(a) Hong is going to get married.
(b) Chen is getting married.
(c) He is old enough to be on his own.
(d) His examinations are finished.

14. Who is Sun Qi?
(a) A magister.
(b) A scholar there to take the examination.
(c) A Red Horseman.
(d) A servant to Wei Xi.

15. What does Yeo do?
(a) Carries mesages for the pirates.
(b) Is in the cavalry.
(c) Cooks onboard the sailing vessel.
(d) Studies the sayings of Confucius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hong told by the spirity of his mother?

2. What is the palace examination?

3. What do Hong and Chen give two woman sitting near a farmhouse?

4. Where does the sailing vessel that Hong and Chen are traveling go?

5. Who is Wei Xi?

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