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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the city of the dead?

2. What kind of tongue did the male sacrificial beast have?

3. What do sorrowful beasts never do?

4. What did the narrator study?

5. What is the square in front of Cloudtop Towers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with Lucia?

2. How does a joyous beast reproduce?

3. Where does the narrator like to hang out, and what does she do there?

4. What happens to Rain in Part I that is tragic?

5. How does the sorrowful beast Cloud eventually die?

6. How did being in close contact with a joyous beast seem to affect the mayor of Yong'An?

7. How does the unnamed narrator describe her own work?

8. What is Charley's connection to Li Chun?

9. How does Ge describe the smile of a sorrowful beast?

10. How does Lefty "tame" the sorrowful beast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what instances does Ge employ irony throughout the novel - perhaps especially in the naming of the classes of beasts themselves? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does the narrator's professor's teachings and views about various beasts affect the narrator's approach to beasts throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the complications the narrator feels about her relationship with her own mother, and what does the narrator eventually discover about her father? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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