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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 are the gills of the prime beasts shaped like?
(a) Fish.
(b) Bamboo leaves.
(c) Anchors.
(d) Pears.

2. What time of year is it around the time the narrator's niece gets her heartsick beast?
(a) New Year's.
(b) Independence Day.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Thanksgiving.

3. Why does the seller of the heartsick beast refund the cousin in Part IV?
(a) He knows the narrator is a friend of Zhong Liang's, and Zhong LIang is from a powerful family.
(b) Her beast is mean.
(c) Her beast was faulty.
(d) Her beast is not the one she ordered.

4. What kind of story does the narrator write about the prime beasts?
(a) An adventure story.
(b) A love story.
(c) A story that is really about sorrowful beasts.
(d) A story that is really about the law.

5. Why does Zhong Liang beg the narrator to come back to the city?
(a) His uncle has run off to marry someone else.
(b) His uncle has drowned himself.
(c) His uncle is paying him to ask her.
(d) His uncle is driving their family crazy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of creatures are heartsick beasts?

4. How does the narrator refer to herself in front of Zhong Liang?

5. Who keeps talking nonstop when the narrator asks about the thousand league beasts in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Methuselah die?

2. Who saves the narrator from the impasse beast's effects?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

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