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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 is the square in front of Cloudtop Towers?
(a) Red River Square.
(b) Harrow Square.
(c) Leasing Square.
(d) Richard Square.

2. What does Charley often do on the phone with the narrator?
(a) Give her enough information to know what to do.
(b) Fail to say goodbye.
(c) Talk loudly.
(d) Say hello.

3. Where does the narrator first see a picture of a joyous beast?
(a) Her mother's house.
(b) The cafe.
(c) Her friend's wall.
(d) The newspaper.

4. What does the narrator try to do after the impasse beast leaves?
(a) Read a new novel.
(b) Move out of town.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Kill her friend.

5. Who is the narrator's niece?
(a) Railey.
(b) Helen.
(c) Hattie.
(d) Lucia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the impasse beasts originally come from?

2. What creature does Li Chun turn into in the joyous beasts story?

3. What two rivers run through the city the narrator lives in?

4. Where did the narrator first meet Charley?

5. Where does the narrator live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator like to hang out, and what does she do there?

2. What does the narrator's professor say about joyous beasts when she asks him about the picture in the paper?

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

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

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

6. Why is Lucia upset by her visit to Cloudtop Towers?

7. What is the nature of sacrificial beasts?

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

9. How does the sorrowful beast Cloud eventually die?

10. What does Cloud do to Lefty that is unexpected and horrific?

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