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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Tang Wangai offer Chen?
(a) Secretary of Confucius's tomb.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Minister of Philosophy.
(d) Governor of his home province.

2. What does Hong say he will consider?
(a) Returning to his village to recruit.
(b) Carrying dangerous letters to Beijing.
(c) Helping Chen to find a safe way to Beijing and then returning to Ma.
(d) Returning to General Ma and becoming a soldier.

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

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

5. Why does Hong say he cannot see Chen as a magistrate?
(a) He doesn't believe in the government.
(b) He knows nothing about the law.
(c) He believes in democracy.
(d) He would be unable to hand out punishments.

6. Why do Hong and Chen leave in haste for Beijing?
(a) The exams have been moved up.
(b) Yuying takes offense and tells her father.
(c) The river is flooded and it will be slow going.
(d) Meng wishes them to take a letter that needs to arrive quickly.

7. Where does Hong put the letters he has?
(a) In his boot.
(b) Under his hat.
(c) He eats them.
(d) He throws them overboard.

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

9. What does the municipal examination do?
(a) Gives them a way to practice.
(b) Lets them know if one understands the government.
(c) Weeds out all but a few hundred of the best.
(d) Lets them know if one is a good citizen.

10. What do three scholars want to do with Chen?
(a) Get him drunk and ridicule him.
(b) Get him drunk so he misses the exam.
(c) Force him to go back home.
(d) Learn from him.

11. What is Hong told by the spirity of his mother?
(a) He should return home immediately.
(b) He should make certain Chen gets to Beijing.
(c) He should let Chen make his own destiny.
(d) He should return to General Ma.

12. How does Hong feel while Chen is making up his mind about a position?
(a) Angry.
(b) Impatient.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Happy.

13. What is the name of Chen's position in the last exam?
(a) Hulan-Shi.
(b) Ni-Gai.
(c) Yu-Bao.
(d) Hui-Yuan.

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

15. How does Hong explain his choice to General Ma?
(a) That Hong wishes to become a sailor.
(b) That Hong has to help Chen get to Beijing.
(c) That Hong wishes to see Beijing before anything else.
(d) That Hong owes his father to return to the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Chen and Hong cross the Yellow River?

2. What is Chen's rank on the next to the last examination?

3. Where has Meng Dafu gone?

4. What does Chen tell Hong about the time of his captivity with the pirates?

5. Who is Meng Dafu?

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