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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals are outlawed in the city?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Birds.
(c) Horses.
(d) Cats.

2. Which beasts have all the power in the section on sacrificial beasts?
(a) The children.
(b) The males.
(c) The grandparents.
(d) The females.

3. Why does the narrator go to see Rain in Part I?
(a) To try to find out what happened to Cloud.
(b) To ask about her own brother.
(c) To get back her brooch.
(d) To find her lost scarf.

4. Where did many of the sorrowful beasts work for years?
(a) The Hellington Factory.
(b) Ping Le Cotton Mill.
(c) The Razor Factory.
(d) The Lace Factory.

5. What happens when an impasse beast ages?
(a) His hair grows very long.
(b) He explodes.
(c) He gets wrinked.
(d) He turns to dust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's professor tell her actually happened to the sacrificial beasts?

2. What does the narrator do in the section on sacrificial beasts before she leaves Cloudtop Towers?

3. Who is the artist in Part I?

4. What is the name of the sacrificial beast the narrator tries to help?

5. Where does the narrator spend a lot of her time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Charley's connection to Li Chun?

2. What do humans decide to do with the remainder of the sacrificial beasts in Part II?

3. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with Lucia?

4. What is unusual about the death of sacrificial beasts?

5. What is the nature of sorrowful beasts?

6. What happens to Rain in Part I that is tragic?

7. How does the sorrowful beast Cloud eventually die?

8. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?

9. How does the unnamed narrator describe her own work?

10. How does Lefty "tame" the sorrowful beast?

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