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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the seller of the heartsick beast refund the cousin in Part IV?
(a) Her beast is mean.
(b) Her beast is not the one she ordered.
(c) He knows the narrator is a friend of Zhong Liang's, and Zhong LIang is from a powerful family.
(d) Her beast was faulty.

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

4. Who is about to buy a heartsick beast in Part IV?
(a) Lucia.
(b) Henry.
(c) Richardson.
(d) Zhong Liang.

5. 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.

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

7. Who is the assistant on the dig revealing the thousand league beast's bones?
(a) Tiang HInt.
(b) Liang Hint.
(c) Cai Liang.
(d) Jiang Tan.

8. How does the narrator think of herself as she was when she first met the professor?
(a) As a manipulative young woman.
(b) As a shy, awkward girl.
(c) As an extrovert.
(d) As a very brilliant student.

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

10. 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.

11. Who does the narrator come to stay with for an extended period in Part III?
(a) James.
(b) Helen.
(c) Henry.
(d) Methuselah.

12. Why does Zhong Liang tell the narrator he does not blame her any longer for his uncle's death?
(a) He loves her now.
(b) His father forgives her.
(c) She is ill.
(d) Everyone has their own fate.

13. Why does Zhong Liang beg the narrator to come back to the city?
(a) His uncle has run off to marry someone else.
(b) His uncle has drowned himself.
(c) His uncle is paying him to ask her.
(d) His uncle is driving their family crazy.

14. What do male prime beasts not permit?
(a) Eating in front of people.
(b) The cutting of their hair.
(c) Cutting their nails.
(d) Tattoos on their skin.

15. What does a prime beast do to the narrator?
(a) Trips her.
(b) Feeds her.
(c) Stabs her.
(d) Tries to drown her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes care of Lucia's heartsick beast while she is on vacation?

2. Who is the film star Zhong Liang seems to be looking for?

3. Which beasts have been extinct a long time?

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

5. What is the place Methuselah runs called?

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