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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 is the "innocent person" Jiang Tan killed to try to save his lover?
(a) James.
(b) The professor.
(c) Helen.
(d) The narrator.

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

3. What kind of creatures are heartsick beasts?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Man-made.
(d) Sure of themselves.

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

5. How does the narrator keep tabs on the person who is trying to find her in Part III while staying for awhile at a different place?
(a) Through radio.
(b) On the television.
(c) In the stars.
(d) Through letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find embedded in the object Zhong Ren leaves her?

2. Who is about to buy a heartsick beast in Part IV?

3. Who is the beast who forms an attachment to the narrator while she stays at a different place for awhile in Part III?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

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

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

5. What do impasse beasts feed on?

6. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

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

8. Who creates heartsick beasts?

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

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

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