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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 is the place Methuselah runs called?
(a) The Throng.
(b) The Celuloid.
(c) The Temple of the Antiquities.
(d) The Hearth.

2. What does Zhong Liang tell the narrator about her story about the thousand league beasts?
(a) It sucked.
(b) The professor hated it.
(c) He did not read it.
(d) It was very good.

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. Where do the narrator's cousin and her family get trapped?
(a) The airport.
(b) The mall.
(c) The church.
(d) The cave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do male prime beasts not permit?

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

3. Who wants to meet the narrator desperately in Part III?

4. What do Methuselah and the narrator drink together?

5. What happens to Zhong Ren in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does the narrator come to stay with Methuselah in Part III?

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

10. How does Methuselah die?

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