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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. How much are Dorm Crew paid?

2. What does Gavriil show everyone he has in his backpack during Russian class in "The Second Week"?

3. What does Selin find in the kitchen sink of her suite in "The Third Week"?

4. When did Selin's mother say that her father referred to Anna Karenina as a bourgeois novel about a fallen woman?

5. What did the owner of a restaurant used to make a cook prepare where Selin's paternal aunt worked?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Selin say about taking an extra class in "The First Week"?

3. Who dies that causes all the Russian isnsructors to be depressed in "The Third Week"?

4. Why is Svetlana good at memorizing?

5. What does Peter tell Selin about Ivan?

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

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

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

9. What are freshman pre-orientation programs, and why did Selin not apply?

10. In "The Third Week," what does Selin notice in the kitchen of her suite?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Selin has an aversion to having children. What are Selin’s views on parenthood and children? Why does she hold those views? How has her childhood influenced her views?

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

In Either/Or, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the storyline? In what way do these characters make the main character more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

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