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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 do shop assistants wake up heartsick beasts?
(a) A special plant.
(b) A defibrillator.
(c) An injection.
(d) A special light.

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

3. What holiday does Zhong Liang's family always go away for, as he tells the narrator in Part IV?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Year.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Thanksgiving.

4. What kind of beast does the narrator begin to think she might be?
(a) A sorrowful beast.
(b) A returning beast.
(c) A heartsick beast.
(d) A thousand league beast.

5. What does Methuselah send to the narrator in the event of her death?
(a) A car.
(b) A vase.
(c) A skate.
(d) A wooden headrest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Zhong Liang's father?

2. What does Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?

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

4. What does Jiang Tan's mother say about him?

5. Where do people usually buy heartsick beasts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

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

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

8. What is very unique about the thousand league beasts?

9. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

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

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