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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 flourishing beasts almost as soon as they are born?
(a) They find lovers.
(b) They start singing.
(c) They grow flowers.
(d) They wither.

2. Who is the assistant on the dig revealing the thousand league beast's bones?
(a) Liang Hint.
(b) Tiang HInt.
(c) Jiang Tan.
(d) Cai Liang.

3. What does the professor asks the narrator to find for him at different places in Part III?
(a) Prosciutto.
(b) Oysters.
(c) Garlic scapes.
(d) Olives.

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

5. What does the narrator's cousin win in Part IV?
(a) A fruit basket.
(b) A lottery ticket.
(c) A trip to South East Asia.
(d) A blanket.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do impasse beasts feed on?

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

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

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

10. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

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