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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Dirk and Culum press Brock to grant Culum?
(a) Access to Brock's records.
(b) A quick marriage to Tess.
(c) A position in Brock's company.
(d) The rights to the knoll.

2. In Chapter 4, who is Dirk waiting to see in Canton?
(a) Brock.
(b) Jin-qua.
(c) May-may.
(d) Culum.

3. What does May-may ask Dirk to do after their argument over her ball gown?
(a) Sell her.
(b) Throw her into the streets.
(c) Allow her to marry another man.
(d) Marry her.

4. As they are standing in the square waiting for Ti-sen to be sentenced, whom does Dirk stop from talking to the crowd?
(a) Longstaff.
(b) Mauss.
(c) Culum.
(d) Cooper.

5. Who buys the knoll to build a church?
(a) Gorth.
(b) Culum.
(c) Dirk.
(d) Robb.

6. What group is not being forced out of the settlement?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The British.

7. After Dirk flogs May-may, what does she tell him?
(a) She hates him.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is in love with another man.
(d) She still wants him to sell her.

8. When does Dirk leave May-may's room on the night of the ball?
(a) When she orders him out.
(b) After she falls asleep.
(c) He does not leave that night.
(d) While she is still crying.

9. What organizations are the fighters for the prizefight from?
(a) The Noble House and the British Navy.
(b) Brock's and Straun's companies.
(c) The British Parliament and the Chinese Emperor's Court.
(d) The Army and Navy.

10. Who wins the ball gown contest?
(a) Tess Brock.
(b) Mary Sinclair.
(c) Liza Brock.
(d) May-may.

11. Who is kept busy painting portraits of Robb's children?
(a) Liza Brock.
(b) Maureen Quance.
(c) Mary Sinclair.
(d) Aristotle Quance.

12. In Chapter 3, how much time does Dirk have to save his trading company?
(a) One week.
(b) One year.
(c) 29 days.
(d) Three months.

13. Who orchestrates the run on Dirk's bank?
(a) May-may.
(b) Culum.
(c) Morgan Brock.
(d) Tyler Brock.

14. In Chapter 6, what does Brock suggest that he and Dirk do?
(a) Quit trading.
(b) Enter the opium trade.
(c) Join their companies.
(d) Leave the settlement.

15. What time does Dirk leave the ball to go see May-may?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) He doesn't leave the ball.
(c) 11:30.
(d) Midnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose servants are secretly all a part of Hung Mun Tong?

2. What does Wu Kwok give Dirk from the Scarlet Cloud?

3. What happens to Dirk as he is traveling back to the settlement in a sedan chair?

4. What does Zergeyev promise to send to Dirk and Longstaff?

5. Whose ship rams Dirk's lorcha as he leaves the settlement following the order for all foreigners to leave?

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