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

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

3. What kind of story does the narrator write about the prime beasts?
(a) A story that is really about the law.
(b) An adventure story.
(c) A story that is really about sorrowful beasts.
(d) A love story.

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

5. What did the narrator's mother used to say was one's own business?
(a) How you live and how you die.
(b) What you eat.
(c) What you read.
(d) Who you love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?

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

3. How does Jiang Tan die?

4. Where do Prime beasts live?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

2. What do impasse beasts feed on?

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 the highest calling of the flourishing beast?

6. Who creates heartsick beasts?

7. How does the narrator realize she herself is a heartsick beast?

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

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

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

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