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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 did the impasse beasts originally come from?
(a) The south.
(b) The west.
(c) The east.
(d) The north.

2. What do the impasse beasts thrive upon?
(a) Despair.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Premonition.
(d) Anger.

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

4. What beasts are particularly hard to kill?
(a) Heartsick beasts.
(b) Joyous beasts.
(c) Sacrificial beasts.
(d) Returning beasts.

5. What two rivers run through the city the narrator lives in?
(a) Straight and Bering.
(b) Loving and Narrow.
(c) Lotus and Peacock.
(d) Mississippi and Harington.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Lucia's favorite sacrificial beast?

3. Who is a good friend of the narrator's?

4. Where does the narrator live?

5. How do impasse beasts eat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why are birds illegal to have as pets?

(see the answer keys)

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