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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 holiday does Zhong Liang's family always go away for, as he tells the narrator in Part IV?

2. Where do Prime beasts live?

3. Why does Zhong Liang tell the narrator he does not blame her any longer for his uncle's death?

4. How did thousand league beasts get their name?

5. What does the narrator's cousin win in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

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

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

5. How does Methuselah die?

6. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

7. Why does the narrator come to stay with Methuselah in Part III?

8. Why is the narrator so depressed in Part III?

9. Who saves the narrator from the impasse beast's effects?

10. Who nurses the narrator back to health after her run-in with the prime beast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

How and why do you think Ge employs ambiguity in both her descriptions of the relationships between sets of characters throughout the book, as well as concerning some major plot points? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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