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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 does Zhong Liang give the narrator for Christmas?
(a) A diamond.
(b) A basket of apples.
(c) Cake.
(d) A book.

2. How old are the bones from the thousand league beasts that are discovered in Part III?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 70 years.
(c) 68 years.
(d) 30 years.

3. What does Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?
(a) A windowpane.
(b) A flower.
(c) A car.
(d) A chair that is a flourishing beast.

4. What does a prime beast do to the narrator?
(a) Trips her.
(b) Feeds her.
(c) Stabs her.
(d) Tries to drown her.

5. Who is the beast who forms an attachment to the narrator while she stays at a different place for awhile in Part III?
(a) Helen.
(b) Henry.
(c) Fabian.
(d) Locust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator's mother used to say was one's own business?

2. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?

3. What holiday does Zhong Liang's family always go away for, as he tells the narrator in Part IV?

4. Why does the seller of the heartsick beast refund the cousin in Part IV?

5. Who does the narrator think might be her father in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is very unique about the thousand league beasts?

2. How does the narrator arrange for her cousin's family to be saved from the debacle at the airport?

3. What happens to Charley that the narrator feels responsible for?

4. Why do female prime beasts sometimes kill their own children?

5. Who does the narrator realize must be her "father?"

6. What do impasse beasts feed on?

7. How does Lucia's mother feel when Lucia wants her heartsick beast to look like the narrator?

8. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

9. Who nurses the narrator back to health after her run-in with the prime beast?

10. Why is the narrator so depressed in Part III?

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