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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zhong Ren leave the narrator in his will?
(a) A chair that is a flourishing beast.
(b) A flower.
(c) A windowpane.
(d) A car.

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

3. What kind of creatures are heartsick beasts?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sure of themselves.
(d) Man-made.

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

5. Why does Zhong Liang tell the narrator he does not blame her any longer for his uncle's death?
(a) His father forgives her.
(b) She is ill.
(c) Everyone has their own fate.
(d) He loves her now.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do shop assistants wake up heartsick beasts?

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

3. Who is the beast who forms an attachment to the narrator while she stays at a different place for awhile in Part III?

4. What did the old heartsick beasts used to do when their masters passed away?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

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

7. How does Methuselah die?

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

9. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

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

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