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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Zhong Liang ask the narrator to try to help him find?
(a) Their professor.
(b) His friend.
(c) The woman he thinks he loves in his dreams.
(d) His sister.

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

3. What holiday does Zhong Liang's family always go away for, as he tells the narrator in Part IV?
(a) New Year.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Easter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the old heartsick beasts used to do when their masters passed away?
(a) Ate too much.
(b) Drowned themselves.
(c) Starved to death.
(d) Run into walls and die.

11. How big are the litters of female prime beasts, usually?
(a) Ten or more.
(b) Two or three.
(c) Five or more.
(d) Fifteen or more.

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

13. What kind of creatures are heartsick beasts?
(a) Man-made.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sure of themselves.
(d) Sad.

14. Where does Zhong Liang go to try to find information about the person he is desperate to find?
(a) His parents' house.
(b) The manufacturing plant.
(c) The police station.
(d) The unviersity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How often do the prime beasts gather to propagate?

2. Why does Zhong Liang beg the narrator to come back to the city?

3. Who wants to meet the narrator desperately in Part III?

4. Who does the narrator think might be her father in Part IV?

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

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