Our team of conscripts from the Imperial exam is frenetically preparing our next installment of Dream of the Red Chamber. In the meantime, we're pleased to publish this short HSK test at the opposite end of the difficulty spectrum. Our challenge for you today is relatively easy: place the provided word in the only position in the sentence where it makes grammatical sense.

These questions take up a small portion of the total exam, and are biased towards students who have had a formal education in Chinese grammar. If you're working on Chinese without one, see how you negotiate the questions on feeling alone. In a crunch, you should always trust your first instincts in a test situation. As always, we hope you do well, but feel free to leave any questions in the comment section below.