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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. Who does Lucia want her heartsick beasts to look like?

2. How did the narrator's mother die?

3. What does the professor asks the narrator to find for him at different places in Part III?

4. Which beasts have been extinct a long time?

5. Who does Methuselah show the narrator a picture of herself with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do impasse beasts feed on?

3. How does the narrator arrange for her cousin's family to be saved from the debacle at the airport?

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

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

6. What happens to Charley that the narrator feels responsible for?

7. What is Zhong Liang's role in the professor's operations?

8. Who creates heartsick beasts?

9. What theory does the narrator hatch about her own history with prime beasts?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Ge establish and maintain suspense throughout this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Ge intends to communicate to readers by revealing, at the end of the novel, that there is actually very little separation between the worlds of beasts and humans? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why is the narrator so fascinated with the returning beasts, in particular, and how do returning beasts represent the key to her unlocking all her major questions about the strange beasts? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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