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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 spend a lot of her time?
(a) Her old school.
(b) Helen's house.
(c) The Big Chill.
(d) Dolphin Bar.

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

3. What does the narrator do in the section on sacrificial beasts before she leaves Cloudtop Towers?
(a) Leaves her knife.
(b) Vomits.
(c) Leaves her purse.
(d) Faints.

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 her friend.
(d) Kill herself.

5. Where did the impasse beast work at one time?
(a) The government office.
(b) High School 72.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The law office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the impasse beast's old job?

2. Who does the bartender at the Dolphin Bar tell the narrator miss Charley?

3. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?

4. Who ends up in a relationship with Cloud in the end of the sorrowful beasts story?

5. What does the new hormone in Part I do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?

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

3. What is the nature of sorrowful beasts?

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

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

6. Why are birds illegal to have as pets?

7. Why do sorrowful beasts seek only one mate in life?

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

9. Why can the sorrowful beasts never smile?

10. What does the narrator think the sacrificial beasts sacrifice themselves for?

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