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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lin Shi refuse to believe?
(a) That Hong is a member of the White Lotus.
(b) That Chen is a member of the White Lotus.
(c) That Hong and Chen are on their way to Beijing.
(d) That Hong and Chen are cousins.

2. What does Landlord Ma offer in order to convince Chen to marry his daughter?
(a) Land.
(b) Money.
(c) Prestige.
(d) Access to a huge library.

3. For what did the local schoolmaster resent Chen?
(a) His priviledged position in the village.
(b) The attention he garnered in Chengdu.
(c) His popularity with the other students.
(d) His effortless intelligence.

4. Who is Wujiang?
(a) Lao Hong's best friend.
(b) The village teacher.
(c) Lao Chen's cousin.
(d) An affluent boy who Lao Hong knows.

5. Where are the highest government exams taken?
(a) In one's own hometown.
(b) The imperial palace in Beijing.
(c) In the largest city of a designated area.
(d) In each province Capitol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gao Shi?

2. Why does Chen stay outside the hall after Ding leaves?

3. What is Shen Ding's reply?

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

5. What does the Magistrate decide to do to find out if the boys are who they say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shen Ding advise Chen to do on the last day of the exam, what does Chen decide to do and why?

2. How does Chen figure out that Shen Ding tried to ruin Chen's chances at passing the exam?

3. What happens after Chen is shown to his testing cubicle?

4. Give a brief description of the two boys, Lao Hong and Lao Chen.

5. Who has tutored Chen and what type of examinations has he passed at the beginning of the book? What is he now called in China?

6. Who does Hong get to know on the river?

7. From where is Chen returning on a cart and on what is he thinking?

8. What does Shen Ding explain to Chen about the grading of the exams?

9. How does Hong's match turn out?

10. What happens as the brothers leave Ma's home?

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