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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator refer to herself in front of Zhong Liang?
(a) As his sister.
(b) As his mentor.
(c) As his friend.
(d) As his elder.

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

4. What kind of special tree does Methuselah have at the temple?
(a) Flowering plum.
(b) Cherry.
(c) Locust.
(d) Apricot.

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

6. Which beasts have been extinct a long time?
(a) Thousand league beasts.
(b) Hellacious beasts.
(c) Indigent beasts.
(d) Returning beasts.

7. What does the professor asks the narrator to find for him at different places in Part III?
(a) Oysters.
(b) Olives.
(c) Prosciutto.
(d) Garlic scapes.

8. How did thousand league beasts get their name?
(a) No one knows.
(b) They can see one thousand years into the future.
(c) They are one thousand years old.
(d) It was in their founding document.

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

10. How do shop assistants wake up heartsick beasts?
(a) A defibrillator.
(b) A special light.
(c) An injection.
(d) A special plant.

11. Who does the narrator think might be her father in Part IV?
(a) Zhong Liang.
(b) A prime beast.
(c) Zhong Ren.
(d) Cai Cao.

12. Who does Methuselah show the narrator a picture of herself with?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's best friend.
(c) The narrator's husband.
(d) The narrator's sister.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pieces are dead flourishing beasts divided into?

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

3. What time of year is it around the time the narrator's niece gets her heartsick beast?

4. Who does Zhong Liang ask the narrator to try to help him find?

5. Who finds the bones of thousand leagues beasts?

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