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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What time of year is it around the time the narrator's niece gets her heartsick beast?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Independence Day.
(d) Christmas.
2. What does Zhong Liang give the narrator for Christmas?
(a) Cake.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A book.
(d) A basket of apples.
3. What did the old heartsick beasts used to do when their masters passed away?
(a) Run into walls and die.
(b) Ate too much.
(c) Starved to death.
(d) Drowned themselves.
4. Who does Lucia want her heartsick beasts to look like?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The narrator.
5. What kind of creatures are heartsick beasts?
(a) Sad.
(b) Man-made.
(c) Sure of themselves.
(d) Angry.
6. Who is the film star Zhong Liang seems to be looking for?
(a) Lin Bao.
(b) Jiang Ten.
(c) Helen.
(d) Hai Nao.
7. Who takes care of Lucia's heartsick beast while she is on vacation?
(a) Jeremy Ren.
(b) Helen.
(c) Zhong Liang.
(d) The narrator.
8. Who keeps talking nonstop when the narrator asks about the thousand league beasts in Part III?
(a) Zhong Ren.
(b) Rian Zhong.
(c) Jiang Tan.
(d) Helen.
9. What does the narrator find embedded in the object Zhong Ren leaves her?
(a) A pencil.
(b) His eye.
(c) His tongue.
(d) A diamond.
10. Who is the assistant on the dig revealing the thousand league beast's bones?
(a) Cai Liang.
(b) Jiang Tan.
(c) Liang Hint.
(d) Tiang HInt.
11. What color are the lips of the prime beasts?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Purplish.
(d) Red.
12. How do shop assistants wake up heartsick beasts?
(a) A special light.
(b) A special plant.
(c) A defibrillator.
(d) An injection.
13. Who does the narrator come to stay with for an extended period in Part III?
(a) James.
(b) Henry.
(c) Methuselah.
(d) Helen.
14. How did thousand league beasts get their name?
(a) They can see one thousand years into the future.
(b) No one knows.
(c) It was in their founding document.
(d) They are one thousand years old.
15. What is a deterrent for buying heartsick beasts?
(a) They are not very trendy.
(b) They are very expensive.
(c) They are fragile.
(d) They are not very attractive.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Methuselah show the narrator a picture of herself with?
2. What kind of beast does the narrator begin to think she might be?
3. What are the shop assistants very particular in instructing the buyers of heartsick beasts about?
4. How many pieces are dead flourishing beasts divided into?
5. How does the narrator refer to herself in front of Zhong Liang?
This section contains 420 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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