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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He dies in a car accident.
(c) He drowns.
(d) He is killed by a flourishing beast.

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

3. What did the narrator's mother used to say was one's own business?
(a) How you live and how you die.
(b) What you read.
(c) What you eat.
(d) Who you love.

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

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

6. What does Jiang Tan's mother say about him?
(a) He was always sure of himself.
(b) He was not very motivated.
(c) He knew everything and was beautiful and clever.
(d) He was always angry.

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

8. What does Methuselah send to the narrator in the event of her death?
(a) A vase.
(b) A skate.
(c) A wooden headrest.
(d) A car.

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

10. How does the professor die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) From cancer.
(c) From a heart attack.
(d) In a drowning accident.

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

12. Who does the young beast at Methuselah's look like?
(a) The narrator's aunt.
(b) The narrator's friend.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) The narrator's father.

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

14. What happens to the heartsick beast the narrator watches for Lucia while Lucia is away?
(a) It eats all the narrator's food.
(b) It dies.
(c) It ruins the narrator's clothes.
(d) It drinks all the narrator's liquor.

15. Who does Zhong Liang discover is actually the woman in his dreams?
(a) His professor.
(b) His childhood heartsick beast.
(c) The narrator.
(d) His teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator's cousin and her family get trapped?

2. What does Zhong Kui tell the narrator when he first meets her?

3. Who is about to buy a heartsick beast in Part IV?

4. What do male prime beasts not permit?

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

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