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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator think might be her father in Part IV?
(a) Zhong Ren.
(b) Cai Cao.
(c) Zhong Liang.
(d) A prime beast.

2. What do Methuselah and the narrator drink together?
(a) Tea.
(b) Water.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Beer.

3. How often do the prime beasts gather to propagate?
(a) Once every year.
(b) Once every seven years.
(c) Once every three years.
(d) Once every five years.

4. Who do the flourishing beasts pray to?
(a) Flourishing Irene.
(b) Flourishing Helen.
(c) Flourishing Gilead.
(d) Flourishing Buddha.

5. What does Zhong Kui tell the narrator when he first meets her?
(a) He is battling addiction.
(b) He knew her mother.
(c) She is very beautiful.
(d) He has read her novels.

6. What happens to flourishing beasts almost as soon as they are born?
(a) They find lovers.
(b) They grow flowers.
(c) They wither.
(d) They start singing.

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

8. What does Zhong Liang give the narrator for Christmas?
(a) Cake.
(b) A book.
(c) A basket of apples.
(d) A diamond.

9. What kind of beast is the beast the narrator wants to stay with for an extended period in Part III?
(a) Thousand League.
(b) Returning.
(c) Flourishing.
(d) Sacrificial.

10. What does the narrator find embedded in the object Zhong Ren leaves her?
(a) A diamond.
(b) His tongue.
(c) A pencil.
(d) His eye.

11. Who is the beast who forms an attachment to the narrator while she stays at a different place for awhile in Part III?
(a) Henry.
(b) Fabian.
(c) Locust.
(d) Helen.

12. What starts happening that scares society in Part IV?
(a) Bad headaches.
(b) Sleeping sickness.
(c) Waves of violence.
(d) Drug addiction.

13. What is the place Methuselah runs called?
(a) The Throng.
(b) The Celuloid.
(c) The Temple of the Antiquities.
(d) The Hearth.

14. What does Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?
(a) A windowpane.
(b) A car.
(c) A chair that is a flourishing beast.
(d) A flower.

15. What does the narrator's cousin win in Part IV?
(a) A lottery ticket.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A fruit basket.
(d) A trip to South East Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the assistant on the dig revealing the thousand league beast's bones?

2. Who does Zhong Liang tell the narrator that their professor was always mentioning?

3. Who does the young beast at Methuselah's look like?

4. Who does Lucia want her heartsick beasts to look like?

5. How does the narrator refer to herself in front of Zhong Liang?

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