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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 the health inspector from Morganbrook and Byatt urge Mrs. Banks to do?
(a) Leave Shanghai immediately.
(b) Leave her husband.
(c) Watch the New Year's parade.
(d) Get rid of the servants.

2. What does Christopher remember about the days immediately following his failure to take the lotion back to Ling Tien's room?
(a) Christopher does not remember anything of those days.
(b) Christopher remembers being concerned for his father.
(c) Christopher remembers being concerned about Akira.
(d) Christopher remembers being concerned for his mother.

3. Why does Jennifer grope around the drawing room?
(a) She is dizzy.
(b) The drawing room is very dark.
(c) She has blindfolded herself.
(d) She is blind.

4. What does Mrs. Banks tell Christopher to reassure him?
(a) Chinese Intelligence knows where Christopher's father is.
(b) British Intelligence knows where Christopher's father is.
(c) The city's very best detectives are working on the case.
(d) Christopher's father knows how to handle himself.

5. What is the first question Christopher asks Sir Cecil?
(a) Christopher asks him if he has any crimes that need to be solved.
(b) Christopher asks if he has spent any time recently in Shanghai.
(c) Christopher asks him if he has a drink.
(d) Christopher asks him if he knows Sarah Hemmings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of Cecil Medhurst's speech at the Meredith Foundation dinner?

2. How does Mrs. Banks respond to the health inspector's suggestion?

3. How does Miss Givens strike Christopher in her interview?

4. How does Christopher describe Miss Givens's smiles?

5. How does Osbourne offend Christopher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sir Cecil Medhurst's speech at the Meredith Foundation Dinner.

2. How does Christopher receive his magnifying glass?

3. When Christopher finally sees Akira after Mr. Banks disappearance, how does Akira behave?

4. Where is Charles Emery's body found?

5. What does Akira say when Christopher asks if his parents sometime stop talking to each other?

6. What happens after Uncle Philip leaves Christopher?

7. How does Christopher spend his time in the summer of 1923?

8. Describe the opium campaign meetings.

9. Describe Christopher's meeting with the silver-haired man.

10. What is the "dining room episode?"

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