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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What video site does Alexandra spend a significant amount of time on?
(a) SnapChat.
(b) Vine.
(c) Facebook.
(d) YouTube.

2. Who is Alexandra's father's first wife?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Cindy.
(c) Hettie.
(d) Sharon.

3. What kind of a job does Alexandra think she is offered just because she is Asian?
(a) Underwriter.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Adjunct professor.
(d) Chef.

4. Who does Alexandra first tell she is quitting her job at work?
(a) Corey.
(b) Tim.
(c) Francis.
(d) Jasmine.

5. Who is Yamei Kin's husband?
(a) Hippolytus.
(b) Healey.
(c) Michael.
(d) Cletus.

6. What does Alexandra's high school do to try to help heal after the 17 year-old's murder there?
(a) Institute a Friendship Day.
(b) Create a memorial garden.
(c) Move the school to another building.
(d) Hire more minorities for teaching positions.

7. What practice does Alexandra read about Chinese women practicing throughout history?
(a) Finger binding.
(b) Henna painting.
(c) Foot binding.
(d) Ear-piercing.

8. What does the company that approaches Alexandra to work for them while she is on her road trip require as part of the job?
(a) For her to move back to San Francisco.
(b) For her to give them all her passwords.
(c) For her to sign an NDA.
(d) For her to break up with J.

9. What phrase did the schoolyard kids use to tease Alexandra with?
(a) Her name backwards - Jing Zhang.
(b) A Chinese song that was popular back then.
(c) They called her a poor girl.
(d) Mean words about her eyes.

10. What causes a major argument between J and Alexandra in Part IV?
(a) Fights about money.
(b) A disagreement about the conduct of the professor who asks Alexandra to apply for a job.
(c) A difference of opinion about food.
(d) Alexandra's decision to move back to San Francisco.

11. What does Alexandra dress up as for Halloween?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A pumpkin.
(c) A mad scientist.
(d) A writer.

12. What does Yamei Kin tell a New York audience that she is speaking of in 1904?
(a) The unfairness of immigrants' wages.
(b) The coming race war.
(c) The white disaster.
(d) The rising darkness.

13. What does Alexandra's father call J?
(a) White Boy.
(b) Bonehead.
(c) Mister.
(d) Randy.

14. What does Alexandra think is a grand gesture of love with J?
(a) Getting him an iPad.
(b) Giving him a ring.
(c) Singing to him.
(d) Following him to Ithaca.

15. What does J once tell Alexandra is a reason he loves her?
(a) Her career.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her loyalty.
(d) Her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alexandra use to keep up with what is going on with her former colleagues when she moves to Ithaca?

2. Whose biography does Alexandra start to read in Part IV?

3. What does Alexandra's mother advise her to say back to the classmate who makes fun of her in kindergarten?

4. What kind of chess set does the house Alexandra and J are renting have?

5. Which wealthy Chinese woman does Alexandra's mother urge her to emulate?

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