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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 kind of tongue did the male sacrificial beast have?
(a) Slimy.
(b) Forked.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Fat.

2. What did the narrator study?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Crytpozoology.
(d) English.

3. Who ends up in a relationship with Cloud in the end of the sorrowful beasts story?
(a) Rain.
(b) He Qi.
(c) Helen.
(d) Misty.

4. Why are the animals that are outlawed in the city outlawed?
(a) They are signs of evil.
(b) They are too beautiful to look at.
(c) They are used in spells.
(d) They are thought to be harmful to humans.

5. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?
(a) Angry ones.
(b) Secretive ones.
(c) Auspicious ones.
(d) Heavy ones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator suggest the sacrificial beasts martyred themselves for?

2. What happens when an impasse beast ages?

3. What does Charley often do on the phone with the narrator?

4. What do flourishing beasts make their livings as?

5. What does the narrator try to do after the impasse beast leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with her professor?

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

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

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

5. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?

6. In Part I, what does the narrator's professor tell her might have happened to the male sorrowful beast Cloud?

7. How does Ge describe the smile of a sorrowful beast?

8. Why does the narrator feel guilty about her role in the killing of the sacrificial beasts?

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

10. What is the nature of sorrowful beasts?

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