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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 Yao?
(a) The cabin boy on the sailing vessel.
(b) A boy Hong shares confinement with at the pirate camp.
(c) Another scholar Hong and Chen encounter.
(d) A soldier in the Emperor's army.

2. What do Hong and Chen travel on towards Beijing?
(a) The Great Wall.
(b) The Yangtze River.
(c) The Grand Canal.
(d) A dusty road.

3. What does Yao advise Hong?
(a) To cooperate with the pirates.
(b) To give the letters to the pirates.
(c) To try to escape since he'll be killed anyway.
(d) Nothing.

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

5. About what are Hong and Chen warned?
(a) The treacherous river currents.
(b) The magistrate in Manju.
(c) Bandits in the area around Manju.
(d) Traveling through the flooded regions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Hong and Chen pour rice on the doorstep of a house?

2. What does the letter that Hong delivers say?

3. Who is Wei Xi?

4. Who does Hong visit before he leaves Beijing?

5. What does Chen think has helped to prepare him for the exam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the river pirates do when they board the boat?

2. How did Chen do on the examination, what is he called and who gives him his diploma?

3. How far do the brothers take the Grand Canal, and what are they told at the end of it? What do they decide to do about the information?

4. How does Chen answer the final question on the examination, and why is troubled by it?

5. What does Hong agree to do with Yao, and what does he insist on first? How do the boys carry out Hong's desire?

6. Where do the brothers finally stop after the Yellow River plain and where do they stay there?

7. Where is Hong taken by the pirates, who does he meet and what does that person tell him?

8. What happens with Hong after he receives the message from Tang?

9. What is available to Chen for a position, what is he considering and how does Hong feel about Chen making up his mind?

10. How does Chen finally decide upon a position?

(see the answer keys)

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