3. Why does Hong say he cannot see Chen as a magistrate?
(a) He doesn't believe in the government.
(b) He would be unable to hand out punishments.
(c) He knows nothing about the law.
(d) He believes in democracy.

4. What does General Ma want Hong to do?
(a) Accompany Chen to Beijing and recruit there.
(b) Become a scout.
(c) Become a soldier.
(d) Go back to his village and recruit others.

5. Why do Hong and Chen leave in haste for Beijing?
(a) Yuying takes offense and tells her father.
(b) The exams have been moved up.
(c) Meng wishes them to take a letter that needs to arrive quickly.
(d) The river is flooded and it will be slow going.

6. What do the two men who corner Hong demand?
(a) His money.
(b) The name of his teacher.
(c) The last question on the examinaiton.
(d) To know what Tang said to him.

7. Why is Hong tortured?
(a) He tells them nothing about his letters or the White Lotus.
(b) He tried to protect Chen.
(c) He is captured by the Emperor's forces.
(d) He angers the pirate leader.

8. Why does Chen meet secretly with Yuying?
(a) Because Meng has forbidden any contact with Yuying.
(b) He does not meet in secret with Yuying.
(c) Because of Meng's jealousy.
(d) Because Yuying is a wanted man.

9. What does Yeo do?
(a) Is in the cavalry.
(b) Cooks onboard the sailing vessel.
(c) Carries mesages for the pirates.
(d) Studies the sayings of Confucius.

10. Where does Hong put the letters he has?
(a) He eats them.
(b) Under his hat.
(c) He throws them overboard.
(d) In his boot.

11. Who is Wei Xi?
(a) The main examiner in Beijing.
(b) The secretary who oversees the mansion and grounds dedicated to Confusius.
(c) The great-grandson of Confusius.
(d) A teacher in Beijing.

12. What is significant about the town of Qufu?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The tomb of Confucius is there.
(c) It is the last town before Beijing.
(d) It is the burial place for the Buddha.

13. What do three scholars want to do with Chen?
(a) Get him drunk and ridicule him.
(b) Force him to go back home.
(c) Learn from him.
(d) Get him drunk so he misses the exam.

14. What does Yao advise Hong?
(a) Nothing.
(b) To cooperate with the pirates.
(c) To try to escape since he'll be killed anyway.
(d) To give the letters to the pirates.

15. What does Hong say he will consider?
(a) Returning to General Ma and becoming a soldier.
(b) Carrying dangerous letters to Beijing.
(c) Returning to his village to recruit.
(d) Helping Chen to find a safe way to Beijing and then returning to Ma.