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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 139 - 184, Heartsick Beasts - Prime Beasts).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator keep tabs on the person who is trying to find her in Part III while staying for awhile at a different place?
(a) Through letters.
(b) On the television.
(c) In the stars.
(d) Through radio.

2. How do flourishing beasts die?
(a) They usually kill themselves.
(b) They are drowned.
(c) They are taken by the sun.
(d) The worms that are present from their earliest days devour them from the inside.

3. What does the narrator's professor tell her actually happened to the sacrificial beasts?
(a) They never existed in the first place.
(b) They will live only if they flee.
(c) Some of them killed each other.
(d) They all survived.

4. How does Jiang Tan die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Drive-by shooting.
(d) Cancer.

5. What kind of beast does the narrator begin to think she might be?
(a) A returning beast.
(b) A heartsick beast.
(c) A sorrowful beast.
(d) A thousand league beast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Charley taken when the authorities take him away?

2. What happens to flourishing beasts almost as soon as they are born?

3. What are flourishing beasts by nature?

4. What happened to modern heartsick beasts after the age of 5?

5. What kind of tongue did the male sacrificial beast have?

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