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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Hong and Chen travel on towards Beijing?
(a) A dusty road.
(b) The Grand Canal.
(c) The Yangtze River.
(d) The Great Wall.

3. On what topic is Chen's last essay?
(a) What evil exists.
(b) How to survive a journey through the country.
(c) What he has learned from his brother.
(d) What makes a good leader.

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

5. Who searches the passengers of the boat?
(a) Pirates.
(b) The Captain.
(c) The Magistrate's soldiers.
(d) No one.

6. Where has Meng Dafu gone?
(a) Wuhan.
(b) Chongqing.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Suzhao.

7. Who is deemed to be worth a high ransom?
(a) Ye Pan.
(b) The Captain's daughter.
(c) Chen.
(d) Hong.

8. Who is Yao?
(a) A soldier in the Emperor's army.
(b) A boy Hong shares confinement with at the pirate camp.
(c) The cabin boy on the sailing vessel.
(d) Another scholar Hong and Chen encounter.

9. Who is Meng Dafu?
(a) The captain of the new vessel they board.
(b) The person Chen is to deliver his letter to in Wuhan.
(c) Hong's contact in Wuhan.
(d) Hong's contact in Beijing.

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

11. What is the name of the torture Hong endures?
(a) The bamboo shoots.
(b) The rack.
(c) The Thousand Cuts.
(d) He is not tortured.

12. How does Chen calm himself as he prepares to take the exam?
(a) By repeating a mantra.
(b) By methodically preparing his ink and brushes.
(c) By meditation.
(d) By pacing.

13. Who is impressed by Chen's robes?
(a) The pirates.
(b) The sailors.
(c) The Captain's daughter.
(d) No one.

14. How does Chen feel about his ranking?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Not surprised.
(d) Amazed.

15. What does the White Lotus plan to do concerning Ni Fenglin?
(a) Get him arrested.
(b) Assassinate him.
(c) Blackmail him.
(d) Expose him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Chen pleased that Hong suggests going to Qufu?

2. Where does Hong intend to go when he leaves Beijing?

3. Why is Chen treated differently than the other passengers?

4. What is Hong told by the spirity of his mother?

5. Why does Hong say he cannot see Chen as a magistrate?

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