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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Chapter 1 - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hulan's husband doing as she is in Tienanmen Square?
(a) Preparing to return to the States.
(b) Preparing to kill himself.
(c) Thinking of his daughter and his marriage.
(d) Writing Hulan a letter.

2. With whom does Hulan make a deal five years earlier?
(a) A group of high-powered political figures in Korea.
(b) A group of high-powered political figures who rule China.
(c) A group of high-powered political figures in Japan.
(d) A group of high-powered political figures in the United States.

3. About what does Hulan lament?
(a) The death of the 50 female factory workers.
(b) The death of the 50 miners.
(c) The changes in the party structure.
(d) The failing of her marriage and death of her daughter.

4. Who is Brian McCarthy?
(a) A missing British photographer.
(b) A missing American archaeologist.
(c) A missing American entomologist.
(d) A missing British anthropologist.

5. Where does Hulan work?
(a) A mine in Mongolia.
(b) A factory in Beijing.
(c) A small farm near Wuhan.
(d) Tienanmen Square.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Xiao Da?

2. What does the local farmer note about the body?

3. What does the young boy who kicks the body think?

4. Why will the land be inundated in the future?

5. Upon what river is a dead man floating?

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