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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the "innocent person" Jiang Tan killed to try to save his lover?
(a) The narrator.
(b) James.
(c) The professor.
(d) Helen.

2. Who wants to meet the narrator desperately in Part III?
(a) Zhong Fiang.
(b) Zhong Hiat.
(c) Zhong Lien.
(d) Zhong Ren.

3. What are the shop assistants very particular in instructing the buyers of heartsick beasts about?
(a) The beasts' grooming schedules.
(b) The beasts' sleep schedules.
(c) The beasts' singing.
(d) The beasts' diets.

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

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

6. Where do people usually buy heartsick beasts?
(a) The Rickshaw House.
(b) The Flourishing Temple.
(c) The Heavenly Beauty Mall.
(d) The Fabled Game.

7. Who tells the narrator about the professor's death?
(a) Fei Shuing.
(b) Li Hao.
(c) Cai Chong.
(d) Zhong Liang.

8. How many pieces are dead flourishing beasts divided into?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 8.

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

10. Who keeps talking nonstop when the narrator asks about the thousand league beasts in Part III?
(a) Rian Zhong.
(b) Zhong Ren.
(c) Jiang Tan.
(d) Helen.

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

12. Who helps the narrator save her cousin and her cousin's family?
(a) Helen.
(b) James.
(c) Zhong Liang.
(d) Chaing Cao.

13. What is a deterrent for buying heartsick beasts?
(a) They are fragile.
(b) They are very expensive.
(c) They are not very attractive.
(d) They are not very trendy.

14. How old are the bones from the thousand league beasts that are discovered in Part III?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 70 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 68 years.

15. What time of year is it around the time the narrator's niece gets her heartsick beast?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Independence Day.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) New Year's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?

2. What kind of story does the narrator write about the prime beasts?

3. What starts happening that scares society in Part IV?

4. How do flourishing beasts die?

5. Who do the flourishing beasts pray to?

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