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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 flourishing beasts die?
(a) They are taken by the sun.
(b) The worms that are present from their earliest days devour them from the inside.
(c) They are drowned.
(d) They usually kill themselves.

2. Where do people usually buy heartsick beasts?
(a) The Fabled Game.
(b) The Flourishing Temple.
(c) The Rickshaw House.
(d) The Heavenly Beauty Mall.

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

4. Who is about to buy a heartsick beast in Part IV?
(a) Henry.
(b) Zhong Liang.
(c) Lucia.
(d) Richardson.

5. What does Jiang Tan's mother say about him?
(a) He was always angry.
(b) He knew everything and was beautiful and clever.
(c) He was not very motivated.
(d) He was always sure of himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Zhong Liang's father?

2. Why does the seller of the heartsick beast refund the cousin in Part IV?

3. What color are the lips of the prime beasts?

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

5. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who creates heartsick beasts?

2. What happens to Lucia's heartsick beast when the narrator takes care of it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do impasse beasts feed on?

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

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