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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 108 - 159).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Felix's co-worker ask him in what the narrator thinks is an effort to cut her out of the conversation?
(a) How much money he is making.
(b) How much he misses home.
(c) How he liked the exhibit.
(d) What he wants to do later.

2. What do even altruistic acts contain, according to the first person the narrator meets through the dating website?
(a) Financial motivations.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Evil.
(d) Selfish motivations.

3. What does the narrator discover that landlords in Berlin hate?
(a) Subletters.
(b) Cats.
(c) Americans.
(d) Dogs.

4. Where and when does the narrator usually write her longer stories?
(a) In the office, during the day.
(b) At a university, during the working day.
(c) At her mother's house on the weekends.
(d) Outside the office, at night or on weekends.

5. Where does the narrator go with her boyfriend on their last date?
(a) A restaurant in Queens.
(b) A theater in New York City.
(c) A restaurant on the Lower East Side.
(d) Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator get the sense that most people want her to do in the wake of Felix's death?

2. Who does the narrator routinely refer to as sort of watching her story and commenting on it from the sidelines?

3. How does the narrator describe her skincare regimen?

4. How does the narrator begin to feel after about five drinks?

5. What does the narrator decide to put off doing until after the big women's protest?

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