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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ye Pan give Hong before Hong leaves?
(a) Letters.
(b) Coins.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food.

2. From where is Chen returning?
(a) From the Province capitol.
(b) From the rice paddies.
(c) From a visit with a scholar.
(d) From swimming.

3. Where are Chen and Ding's names on the list that is first posted?
(a) Both near the bottom.
(b) They are not on the list.
(c) Both near the top.
(d) Both near the middle.

4. Who is Gao Shi?
(a) The chief examiner who offers to be Chen's mentor.
(b) Ding's best friend whose name is on the list.
(c) The prefect of the examiners.
(d) Hong's contact in the White Lotus.

5. Why are Chen and Hong in the custody of the magistrate?
(a) He is suspicious of Chen being a charlaton.
(b) Someone said the boys were taking rice out of the paddies.
(c) He thinks the letter Chen is carrying is about treason.
(d) He thinks the letter Hong is carrying is about treason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chen need that was difficult to get?

2. What does Hong worry about as he and Chen are walking?

3. What does Hong agree to do?

4. What does Lin Shi refuse to believe?

5. How has Lao Chen's father lost his money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shen Ding advise Chen to do on the last day of the exam, what does Chen decide to do and why?

2. What town do the brothers reach after leaving Ma's home, what do they do and of what does Hong make certain?

3. What is waiting for Chen when he arrives home and who has done it for him?

4. From where is Chen returning on a cart and on what is he thinking?

5. How does Hong eventually feel about Lin Shi and what happens to Lin Shi?

6. What do Hong and Chen announce to their father and what is his reaction?

7. What talent does Chen have and at what age does this talent show?

8. What does Hong do while Chen is receiving his award?

9. What does Zhu Tong as of Hong?

10. What did Chen need in order to take the first examination and how did he get it?

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