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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. Where does the narrator live?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Shichuan.
(c) Anderton.
(d) Yong'An.

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

3. Who is a good friend of the narrator's?
(a) Maring.
(b) Helen.
(c) Charley.
(d) Carol.

4. Who is the beast who ingratiates himself into the narrator's life?
(a) Yue.
(b) Fing.
(c) Chian.
(d) Chang.

5. What are flourishing beasts by nature?
(a) Angry.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Peaceful and benevolent.
(d) Anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one hallmark of the impasse beasts?

2. Who does the narrator think tricks her in the story of the sacrificial beasts?

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

4. What does the professor often do to the narrator?

5. What did Li Chun really do to the mayor's daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did being in close contact with a joyous beast seem to affect the mayor of Yong'An?

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

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

4. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the sorrowful beast Cloud eventually die?

(see the answer keys)

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