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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. Whom does David realize is Xiao Da?
(a) Michael Quon.
(b) No one.
(c) Tang.
(d) Ma.

2. Why is Tang furious?
(a) He thinks Fitzwilliams failed to acknowledge Tang's last bid.
(b) He lost the bid.
(c) He thinks Miller overmuscled him.
(d) He thinks Fitzwilliams wanted the ruyi to go to the winner rather than Tang.

3. To what does Ma confess?
(a) His love affair with Angela.
(b) His love affair with Lily.
(c) His involvement in bringing some illegal artifacts to auction.
(d) For whom he works.

4. Where does David tell Fitzwilliams some of the items to be auctioned originated?
(a) A museum that was closed in Wuhan.
(b) Site 889.
(c) An unnamed, illegal archeological site in Hunan.
(d) Site 518.

5. What is Angela's occupation?
(a) Anthropologist.
(b) Archeologist.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Mycologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ma trying to do?

2. What does Miller say about Brian in relation to Lily?

3. What does Michael enjoy more than anything?

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

5. Where does Miller feel he is safe?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the gate watcher at the compound tell Hulan?

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

4. What does Stuart tell David about the ruyi, and what does David realize about Michael Quon?

5. What does David show to Wu's widow? What do David and the widow do? What does she offer David?

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

7. What does Hulan finally realize about the courtyard? What does she ask Angela to do?

8. 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?

9. With whom does David meet at Cosgrove's? What does David tell this person? What is this person's response?

10. With what does Brian become obsessed, and what does he realize about the geographic layout of the land at Site 518?

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