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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 196-226.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chen worry about concerning the customs officers?
(a) They will keep Hong from entering since Hong is not a scholar.
(b) They will not believe he is a scholar.
(c) Losing his jad ink stone.
(d) Not having any money for a bribe.

2. How has Lao Chen's father lost his money?
(a) He never had much money.
(b) Drinking and gambling.
(c) His second wife's family.
(d) Bad crops several years in a row.

3. Who is Meng Dafu?
(a) Hong's contact in the White Lotus in Beijing.
(b) Chen's newest teacher.
(c) The magistrate in Wuhan.
(d) The person to whom Chen is to deliver a letter.

4. What is Hong doing while Chen participates in the banquet ceremonies?
(a) He is in the audience watching proudly.
(b) He is on his way home to take the good news to their village.
(c) He is at a young woman's house whom he wishes to marry.
(d) He is inducted into the White Lotus.

5. Who is the White Lotus?
(a) A European group who devote their lives to the teachings of Confucius.
(b) A secret police group answerable to the Emperor.
(c) A Buddhist sect.
(d) A group of scholars who study past Chinese dynasties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Chongquing?

2. Why do Hong and Chen leave in haste for Beijing?

3. What does Shen Ding's note to Chen say?

4. Where do Hong and Chen go after stopping in Wuhan?

5. What does Lin Shi decide Hong and Chen are doing?

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