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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 is Chen unable to find to help the boys out of their dilemma?
(a) His letter from his school master.
(b) His letter from his father.
(c) His diploma.
(d) His examination appointment.

2. For what does Ye Pan praise Hong?
(a) His trustworthiness.
(b) His observation skills.
(c) His wits and courage.
(d) His brother's scores.

3. What did Lao Chen learn by age four?
(a) To write perfect haiku.
(b) To play the ruan.
(c) To play the guzheng.
(d) More Chinese characters than most adults ever learn.

4. What happens to exams with poor handwriting?
(a) They are automatically marked on level lower.
(b) They are given back to the recipent to re-write.
(c) They are thrown out.
(d) They are considered the same as any other exam.

5. What does Chen ask Shen Ding one night?
(a) If he wants to marry soon.
(b) What he will do if he cannot become a top scholar.
(c) If his family is poor.
(d) If he tried to bribe the examiners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bao ask to change Hong's mind?

2. Where is the person to get the letter living?

3. What does Hong worry about as he and Chen are walking?

4. What is the third son sometimes called?

5. What does Shen praise in his talk with Chen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Hong and Chen announce to their father and what is his reaction?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What concerns Hong about Chen while they are staying at Ma's home?

10. How does Hong's match turn out?

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