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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 happens to the heartsick beast the narrator watches for Lucia while Lucia is away?
(a) It dies.
(b) It ruins the narrator's clothes.
(c) It drinks all the narrator's liquor.
(d) It eats all the narrator's food.

2. How big are the litters of female prime beasts, usually?
(a) Five or more.
(b) Fifteen or more.
(c) Ten or more.
(d) Two or three.

3. How does the narrator refer to herself in front of Zhong Liang?
(a) As his sister.
(b) As his friend.
(c) As his elder.
(d) As his mentor.

4. What starts happening that scares society in Part IV?
(a) Bad headaches.
(b) Sleeping sickness.
(c) Waves of violence.
(d) Drug addiction.

5. Who finds the bones of thousand leagues beasts?
(a) Zhong Liang.
(b) James.
(c) Cai Chong.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a prime beast do to the narrator?

2. How do flourishing beasts die?

3. Who does the narrator come to stay with for an extended period in Part III?

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

5. How did thousand league beasts get their name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What kind of relationship seems to be developing between Zhong Liang and the narrator in Part IV?

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