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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. When Selin goes shopping in Boston with Riley, Priya, and Joanne in "The Fourth Week," what type of fabric does Selin buy?

2. In "The Second Week," how old is Priya compared to Selin and the others?

3. Where did Ivan go at the end of July?

4. When Selin and Leora were in middle school, what did Selin's father take them to New York to see?

5. Where does Selin remember that she and Ivan said goodbye?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Selin not think seeing a therapist will help her?

2. What type of scholarship do Joanne and the other Singaporean students have at Harvard?

3. When Selin goes to the bookstore in "The First Week," why does she wonder if she will like the books for the Chance class?

4. Who does Selin sit with at dinner in "The Third Week"?

5. What type of bag did Selin buy for her sophomore year of college?

6. What discussion do Svetlana and Selin have about vocal and instrumental music?

7. How are Selin and Svetlana different in how they choose friends?

8. When did Selin realize that she was not good at creative writing?

9. What does Selin consider was the worst part of her childhood?

10. When did Selin know that she wanted to become a novelist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lakshmi plans to have an arranged marriage. Why does Lakshmi believe arranged marriages are preferable to love matches?

Essay Topic 2

In Selin’s literature tutorial, students read some of Freud’s texts. Why do students read Freud’s texts? What is revealed about reading a text interpretively through the study of Freud’s texts?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is how an author creates, art, music, or writing based on her interpretation of life. How does Batuman use artistic license to create the realistic background of Either/Or?

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