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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 the young beast at Methuselah's look like?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's aunt.
(c) The narrator's friend.
(d) The narrator's father.

2. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?
(a) He is killed by a flourishing beast.
(b) He dies in a car accident.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He drowns.

3. How many pieces are dead flourishing beasts divided into?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 18.
(d) 8.

4. What does the narrator's cousin win in Part IV?
(a) A blanket.
(b) A lottery ticket.
(c) A fruit basket.
(d) A trip to South East Asia.

5. Who does Zhong Liang discover is actually the woman in his dreams?
(a) His teacher.
(b) The narrator.
(c) His professor.
(d) His childhood heartsick beast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "innocent person" Jiang Tan killed to try to save his lover?

2. What are the gills of the prime beasts shaped like?

3. What time of year is it around the time the narrator's niece gets her heartsick beast?

4. What happens to flourishing beasts almost as soon as they are born?

5. How old are the bones from the thousand league beasts that are discovered in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the narrator come to stay with Methuselah in Part III?

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

6. How does Methuselah die?

7. What is the highest calling of the flourishing beast?

8. Why is the wood of flourishing beast saplings so valuable?

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

10. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with Fei Fei in Part III?

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