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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Zhong Liang's father?
(a) Zhong Kui.
(b) Zhong Ri.
(c) Zhong Ren.
(d) Zhong Hele.

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

3. How do flourishing beasts die?
(a) The worms that are present from their earliest days devour them from the inside.
(b) They are drowned.
(c) They are taken by the sun.
(d) They usually kill themselves.

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

5. Where do the narrator's cousin and her family get trapped?
(a) The church.
(b) The cave.
(c) The airport.
(d) The mall.

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

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

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

9. Who does Lucia want her heartsick beasts to look like?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her friend.

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

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

12. What color are the lips of the prime beasts?
(a) Purplish.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

13. Where do Prime beasts live?
(a) In caves.
(b) Dispersed throughout Yong'An.
(c) In the underworld.
(d) In lovely houses.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?

2. How big are the litters of female prime beasts, usually?

3. What does a prime beast do to the narrator?

4. Who does Methuselah show the narrator a picture of herself with?

5. What does Zhong Liang give the narrator for Christmas?

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