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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. Who does Zhong Liang ask the narrator to try to help him find?
(a) Their professor.
(b) His friend.
(c) The woman he thinks he loves in his dreams.
(d) His sister.

2. What does Jiang Tan's mother say about him?
(a) He was always sure of himself.
(b) He was always angry.
(c) He was not very motivated.
(d) He knew everything and was beautiful and clever.

3. Who do the flourishing beasts pray to?
(a) Flourishing Buddha.
(b) Flourishing Gilead.
(c) Flourishing Helen.
(d) Flourishing Irene.

4. How did the narrator's mother die?
(a) A car accident.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A fire.

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) Locust.
(b) Helen.
(c) Fabian.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zhong Liang give the narrator for Christmas?

2. What kind of beast does the narrator begin to think she might be?

3. Where do Prime beasts live?

4. What happens to the heartsick beast the narrator watches for Lucia while Lucia is away?

5. What does Zhong Liang tell the narrator about her story about the thousand league beasts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who saves the narrator from the impasse beast's effects?

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

3. What is Zhong Liang's role in the professor's operations?

4. Why does the narrator tell Zhong Liang her stories have to be fairly simple?

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

6. What do impasse beasts feed on?

7. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

8. What theory does the narrator hatch about her own history with prime beasts?

9. How does Methuselah die?

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

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