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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do flourishing beasts make their livings as?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Therapists.
(c) Gardeners.
(d) Lawyers.

2. Who is the sorrowful beast who was in a relationship with Lefty?
(a) Helen.
(b) Mike.
(c) Refro.
(d) Cloud.

3. Who are impasse beasts descendants of?
(a) Monsters.
(b) The most despairing humans to ever live.
(c) Gods.
(d) Priests.

4. Where is Charley taken when the authorities take him away?
(a) A research facility.
(b) An asylum.
(c) The narrator's house.
(d) The narrator's professor's house.

5. Who does the narrator think tricks her in the story of the sacrificial beasts?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her professor.

6. What does the new hormone in Part I do?
(a) Gives the beasts terrible headaches.
(b) Kill the beasts.
(c) Make the beasts able to smile again.
(d) Leave the beasts unable to remember anything and let them live as humans.

7. Who does the narrator suggest the sacrificial beasts martyred themselves for?
(a) The aliens.
(b) The birds.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The humans.

8. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?
(a) Auspicious ones.
(b) Angry ones.
(c) Secretive ones.
(d) Heavy ones.

9. What kind of tongue did the male sacrificial beast have?
(a) Slimy.
(b) Fat.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Forked.

10. What was the thunder god's steed named in the section on joyous beasts?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Helen.
(c) Pegasus.
(d) Henry.

11. Who is a good friend of the narrator's?
(a) Helen.
(b) Maring.
(c) Carol.
(d) Charley.

12. What happens to Rain when she takes the hormone?
(a) She goes swimming.
(b) She eats much more than usual.
(c) She sings uncontrollably.
(d) She has an allergic reaction and dies.

13. Where did the narrator first meet Charley?
(a) University.
(b) He was her dog walker.
(c) Her first job at the cafe.
(d) He was her neighbor.

14. Which beasts have all the power in the section on sacrificial beasts?
(a) The females.
(b) The children.
(c) The males.
(d) The grandparents.

15. Who is Lucia's favorite sacrificial beast?
(a) Ching Ching.
(b) Henry.
(c) Li Chun.
(d) Charley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when an impasse beast ages?

2. Who is the narrator very close to, but also has a contentious relationship with?

3. What two rivers run through the city the narrator lives in?

4. What do the impasse beasts thrive upon?

5. Where did many of the sorrowful beasts work for years?

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