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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. How often do the prime beasts gather to propagate?
(a) Once every three years.
(b) Once every year.
(c) Once every seven years.
(d) Once every five years.

2. What are the gills of the prime beasts shaped like?
(a) Fish.
(b) Pears.
(c) Bamboo leaves.
(d) Anchors.

3. Who takes care of Lucia's heartsick beast while she is on vacation?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Zhong Liang.
(c) Helen.
(d) Jeremy Ren.

4. What kind of beast does the narrator begin to think she might be?
(a) A sorrowful beast.
(b) A returning beast.
(c) A heartsick beast.
(d) A thousand league beast.

5. What happens to the heartsick beast the narrator watches for Lucia while Lucia is away?
(a) It ruins the narrator's clothes.
(b) It eats all the narrator's food.
(c) It dies.
(d) It drinks all the narrator's liquor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do people usually buy heartsick beasts?

2. How did the narrator's mother die?

3. What does Jiang Tan's mother say about him?

4. Who do the flourishing beasts pray to?

5. How does Jiang Tan die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who creates heartsick beasts?

2. What do impasse beasts feed on?

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

4. Who does the narrator realize must be her "father?"

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

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

7. What connection does the narrator have to Methuselah?

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

9. Why are heartsick beasts inaccessible to most people?

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

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