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

2. Why do the two boys intend to go there?
(a) To find a bride for their younger sister.
(b) So Chen can take the provincial exams.
(c) To find a bride for Chen.
(d) To light candles for their mother in the temple.

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

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

5. What has Bao taken upon herself to do?
(a) Care for her father and brothers.
(b) Find a husband for her younger sister.
(c) Find a wife for Chen.
(d) Send Chen to Hunan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What right does Chen earn?

2. Who is Hong observing to decide if the man can be trusted?

3. What does Chen ask Shen Ding one night?

4. Where is Chongquing?

5. What is one thing that delights Hong about Chengdu?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hong eventually feel about Lin Shi and what happens to Lin Shi?

2. Who is suspicious of the brothers, why and what does he intend to do?

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

4. How is the truth of the brothers decided?

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

6. What does Chen promise his father and what is the likelihood of him keeping that promise?

7. What is waiting for Chen when he arrives home and who has done it for him?

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

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

10. 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?

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