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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. Whose number is mistakenly placed in the ad asking for information about Li Chun?

2. What beasts are particularly hard to kill?

3. Who is Cloud's sibling?

4. When does the beast Cloud really die?

5. Who does the narrator suggest the sacrificial beasts martyred themselves for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do humans decide to do with the remainder of the sacrificial beasts in Part II?

2. Why does the narrator feel guilty about her role in the killing of the sacrificial beasts?

3. Why are birds illegal to have as pets?

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

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

6. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with her professor?

7. Why can the sorrowful beasts never smile?

8. What is the nature of sacrificial beasts?

9. How does a joyous beast reproduce?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the killing of both beasts and humans - in large numbers - at different points in the novel reveal about the government in this world Ge has built for the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does writing newspaper stories and novels affect the narrator's own perceptions of her feelings and confusions throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Ge treat the topic of deep betrayal in this novel, particularly as it relates to the way the narrator is tricked into revealing the whereabouts of the sacrificial beasts? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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