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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 Ma trying to do?
(a) Add some legal artifacts to the auction.
(b) Add some stolen artifacts to the auction.
(c) Stop the sell of stolen artifacts.
(d) Get Hulan's approval for selling some illegal artifacts.

2. What do David and Fong see as they are flying?
(a) A large area forest fire.
(b) Many families waiting for rescue.
(c) Hundreds of acres of trees flattened.
(d) A deserted area that was totally denuded.

3. What does Brian write to Angela?
(a) To confront Lily about the yuri.
(b) To not come to China.
(c) To really look carefully at his photos.
(d) To go to the American embassy.

4. To what family does the old woman at the gate to the compound belong?
(a) Wu.
(b) Wi.
(c) Wong.
(d) Wang.

5. Who is Angus Fitzwilliams?
(a) An English tourist who is trapped by flood waters.
(b) The operator of Cosgrove's.
(c) David's best friend from law school.
(d) David's law partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ruyi prove?

2. Who invented the story of the Nine Tripod's possible link to the site?

3. Who brought Lily the artifacts?

4. What is swelling mold?

5. Why does Miller have a sexual relationship with Lily?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David see Ma and Fitzwilliams doing, and what does Ma ask David to do?

2. How does Stuart feel about the dam project and why does he think it is a good project?

3. What does Hulan ask Stuart about after David leaves for Hong Kong, and what does he tell her about Lily and about himself and artifacts?

4. What does David tell the person from Cosgrove about the artifacts from Lily?

5. Where do Hulan and Michael go after lunch, and what does she hear? What does Michael do?

6. Why is Tang angry at the end of the bidding for the ruyi? What does he do, and what does David realize about Tang? What does David do when Tang leaves the auction?

7. What does Angela say about Brian's notebook? What does she think about his death? What does Hulan ask her to do?

8. What does Hulan know about her and David after he leaves for Hong Kong and what does she resolve to do?

9. What does Hulan say to Angela when she visits her again, and what does Angela say to Hulan's questions about when she arrived in China?

10. With whom does David sit during the auction? What is explained to David? Who bids on the ruyi?

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