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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do shop assistants wake up heartsick beasts?
(a) An injection.
(b) A special plant.
(c) A defibrillator.
(d) A special light.

2. What do male prime beasts not permit?
(a) Eating in front of people.
(b) The cutting of their hair.
(c) Cutting their nails.
(d) Tattoos on their skin.

3. What do Methuselah and the narrator drink together?
(a) Tea.
(b) Water.
(c) Beer.
(d) Vodka.

4. Who transcribes the narrator's story for her about the prime beasts in Part IV?
(a) Zhong Liang.
(b) Henry Lee.
(c) Helen.
(d) Zhong Ren.

5. What did the old heartsick beasts used to do when their masters passed away?
(a) Ate too much.
(b) Drowned themselves.
(c) Run into walls and die.
(d) Starved to death.

6. How did the narrator's mother die?
(a) A fire.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Cancer.

7. What happened to modern heartsick beasts after the age of 5?
(a) They went to work.
(b) They were slaughtered for food and fed back to their owners.
(c) They were drowned.
(d) They went to school.

8. What kind of beast is the beast the narrator wants to stay with for an extended period in Part III?
(a) Flourishing.
(b) Sacrificial.
(c) Returning.
(d) Thousand League.

9. Who wants to meet the narrator desperately in Part III?
(a) Zhong Hiat.
(b) Zhong Fiang.
(c) Zhong Lien.
(d) Zhong Ren.

10. What color are the lips of the prime beasts?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Purplish.

11. Who does the young beast at Methuselah's look like?
(a) The narrator's father.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator's aunt.
(d) The narrator's friend.

12. Where does Zhong Liang go to try to find information about the person he is desperate to find?
(a) His parents' house.
(b) The police station.
(c) The unviersity.
(d) The manufacturing plant.

13. What happens to flourishing beasts almost as soon as they are born?
(a) They wither.
(b) They find lovers.
(c) They start singing.
(d) They grow flowers.

14. What kind of story does the narrator write about the prime beasts?
(a) A story that is really about sorrowful beasts.
(b) An adventure story.
(c) A story that is really about the law.
(d) A love story.

15. How does the professor die?
(a) In a drowning accident.
(b) In a car accident.
(c) From cancer.
(d) From a heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the heartsick beast the narrator watches for Lucia while Lucia is away?

2. What kind of beast does the narrator begin to think she might be?

3. What starts happening that scares society in Part IV?

4. Who keeps talking nonstop when the narrator asks about the thousand league beasts in Part III?

5. What does Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?

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