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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 Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?

2. Who is the assistant on the dig revealing the thousand league beast's bones?

3. Who tells the narrator about the professor's death?

4. How does the narrator think of herself as she was when she first met the professor?

5. How old are the bones from the thousand league beasts that are discovered in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Lucia's mother feel when Lucia wants her heartsick beast to look like the narrator?

3. Who creates heartsick beasts?

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

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

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

7. What do impasse beasts feed on?

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

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

10. How does the narrator realize she herself is a heartsick beast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How does Ge describe and explore the sacrifices that parents make for their offspring through different characters and at different points in this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

When and how does Ge reveal the true connection the narrator has to various beasts and to the world of strange beasts? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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