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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. What does the narrator do in the section on sacrificial beasts before she leaves Cloudtop Towers?
2. How does the beast Lucia sees killing itself die?
3. What are all flourishing beasts?
4. What do sorrowful beasts only seek one of in life?
5. What do sorrowful beasts prefer?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does a joyous beast reproduce?
2. What is the nature of sorrowful beasts?
3. In Part I, what does the narrator's professor tell her might have happened to the male sorrowful beast Cloud?
4. Where does the narrator like to hang out, and what does she do there?
5. What does the narrator think the sacrificial beasts sacrifice themselves for?
6. How does Ge describe the smile of a sorrowful beast?
7. What is the nature of sacrificial beasts?
8. Why is Lucia upset by her visit to Cloudtop Towers?
9. What kind of creatures are joyous beasts?
10. Why can the sorrowful beasts never smile?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Ge demonstrate the narrator's occasional lack of ability to cope with the pressures and struggles she encounters, and how does the narrator overcome these moments in her life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Why and how does the narrator experience guilt over the course of the novel - especially as the feeling relates to her professor, Charley, and Zhong Liang? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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