2. What does Hulan think she should support because of being educated in the United States?
(a) Religious freedom.
(b) Woman's rights.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Higher education for every Chinese person.

3. To what is Hulan being assigned?
(a) To investigate the All Patriotic Society.
(b) To Hunan province.
(c) To Hong Kong criminal investigations.
(d) To investigate the death of a foreigner.

4. How does Hulan accidentally kill Tang Wenting?
(a) Hulan shoots Wenting in the shoulder, but a bone fragment cuts the carotid.
(b) She struggles with Wenting for the knife and it cuts Wenting's femoral artery.
(c) She is shooting at some thieves and hits Wenting.
(d) Hulan intended to kill Wenting.

5. What is the relation of the local police captain to the bridge contractor?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Brother.
(c) Brother-in-law.
(d) Close friend.

6. What family once lived in the guest house?
(a) The Wu family.
(b) The Wang family.
(c) The Yu family.
(d) The Wong family.

7. Why will the land be inundated in the future?
(a) It is not going to be inundated, but rather become a desert.
(b) There will be a volcanic eruption some time soon.
(c) They are going to flood the land with just a few inches of water to make rice paddies.
(d) The Chinese are building a land at the Three Gorges.

8. What does the local farmer note about the body?
(a) It is a Japanese.
(b) It is a white man.
(c) It is wrapped in a shroud.
(d) It is a very young Chinese man.

9. What is the reason for the assignement of David and Hulan to the same case?
(a) They are just the best people for the job.
(b) To have an Eastern and Western perspective.
(c) To rekindle their marriage.
(d) To keep relations between the United States and China on good terms.

10. What does Lily not want to reveal in front of the others?
(a) She is quitting the project.
(b) She is sleeping with several men on the site.
(c) Her relation to Brian McCarthy.
(d) Her husband caught her in bed with McCarthy.

11. With what has Lily been swabbed?
(a) Her own blood.
(b) Black paint.
(c) Yellow paint.
(d) Whiskey.

12. What does Tang Wenting say she is there to do?
(a) Kill Hulan.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Kill Chairman Mao.
(d) Punish her child.

13. Whom does Hulan interview first?
(a) Li Guo.
(b) Michael.
(c) Ma.
(d) Angela.

14. What is one important missing artifact that Ma discusses?
(a) A vase.
(b) A ruyi.
(c) A pottery bowl.
(d) A sword.

15. What does the narrator say will be a great achievement?
(a) The Three Gorges Dam.
(b) Stopping the oncoming lava flow.
(c) The body reaching its burial spot intact.
(d) The narrator does not mention a great achievement.