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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do sorrowful beasts only seek one of in life?
(a) A house.
(b) A vacation.
(c) A child.
(d) A mate.

2. What creature does Li Chun turn into in the joyous beasts story?
(a) A horse.
(b) A phoenix.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

3. Where did many of the sorrowful beasts work for years?
(a) Ping Le Cotton Mill.
(b) The Lace Factory.
(c) The Razor Factory.
(d) The Hellington Factory.

4. When was the first sighting of a joyous beast?
(a) 20 years earlier.
(b) 50 years earlier.
(c) 10 years earlier.
(d) 80 years earlier.

5. Where was the mayor living when he died in the story on joyous beasts?
(a) His own house.
(b) The narrator's house.
(c) His sister's house.
(d) A care facility.

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

7. Who is the professor's assistant?
(a) Helen.
(b) Zhong Liang.
(c) Henry.
(d) He Qi.

8. What does the narrator try to do after the impasse beast leaves?
(a) Move out of town.
(b) Read a new novel.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Kill her friend.

9. Where did the impasse beasts originally come from?
(a) The west.
(b) The north.
(c) The east.
(d) The south.

10. How does the beast Lucia sees killing itself die?
(a) By ripping its own belly open.
(b) By jumping from a tall building.
(c) Gunshot.
(d) By eating poison.

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

12. What do sorrowful beasts prefer?
(a) The heat.
(b) The rain.
(c) The cold.
(d) The blistering sun.

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

14. Where does the narrator live?
(a) Anderton.
(b) Shichuan.
(c) Yong'An.
(d) Beijing.

15. What is the name of the sacrificial beast the narrator tries to help?
(a) Helen.
(b) Rain.
(c) Fei Fei.
(d) Cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator meet the sacrificial beast she tries to help?

2. What beasts are particularly hard to kill?

3. What kind of beast is Ru Ru?

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

5. How do impasse beasts eat?

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