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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Liza beg Brock to recognize Culum as?
(a) Tess's husband.
(b) Tai pan.
(c) His rival.
(d) His better.

2. Who left a briefcase with the bishop, which the bishop gives to Dirk?
(a) Brock.
(b) Longstaff.
(c) The emperor.
(d) Zergeyev.

3. What is in the sack that Dirk finds in Aberdeen?
(a) Gorth's body.
(b) Money.
(c) Opium.
(d) Scragger's body.

4. What is Monsey sent to tell Longstaff?
(a) To leave Hong Kong.
(b) To stay in Hong Kong.
(c) To marry Mary Sinclair.
(d) To purchase tea seeds.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 48, what is falling rapidly?
(a) Hail.
(b) The price of tea.
(c) Rain.
(d) The barometer.

6. In Chapter 45, where does Brock ask Dirk to meet him?
(a) At the factory.
(b) At the knoll.
(c) At May-may's house.
(d) On the White Witch.

7. Where does the bishop say he was when the bark cured his malaria?
(a) Peru.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Scotland.

8. What does Dirk offer the doctor if he can cure May-may?
(a) 1,000 pounds.
(b) A permanent position as his company doctor.
(c) 20,000 taels of silver.
(d) 1 million bullion.

9. Where does Brock plan to ride out the storm?
(a) On the White Witch.
(b) At Dirk's factory.
(c) In the emperor's palace.
(d) At Dirk's house.

10. The bishop sends word to Dirk saying there may be cinchona bark at a mission where?
(a) In Lo Ting.
(b) In Canton.
(c) In Bi Tong.
(d) In Quenoy.

11. At the knoll, what lie does Dirk tell Brock about Tess?
(a) That she is poxed.
(b) That she is not Brock's daughter.
(c) That she married Dirk.
(d) That she is dead.

12. Who does Dirk ask to be Tai-Tai?
(a) May-may.
(b) Ah-Sam.
(c) Ah-Gip.
(d) Wu Kwok.

13. While at the knoll, what do Dirk and Brock agree is coming?
(a) A typhoon.
(b) The British army.
(c) The end of their trading days.
(d) The death of Brock.

14. What is Roger Blore's real name?
(a) Jeff Cooper.
(b) Wilf Tillman.
(c) John Adamson.
(d) Richard Crosse.

15. What is in the secret report Dirk finds in the briefcase that worries him?
(a) Details on the opium trade.
(b) A Russian plan to start a new trading company.
(c) Information about the tea trade.
(d) A Russian plan for world domination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does May-may order to join Dirk in his bed?

2. What does Brock apologize to Dirk for when they are at the knoll together?

3. When Dirk arrives at the harbor master's office, where are Tess and Culum?

4. When Dirk returns from the English Club following the duel challenge, who is waiting for him at his home?

5. What is Horatio ranting about during the storm?

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