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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls the narrator to tell her Felix has died?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) His mother.
(d) Her roommate.

2. What does the narrator think of the streets of downtown D.C.?
(a) They are too narrow.
(b) They are too wide.
(c) There are not enough trees lining them.
(d) They are too littered with trash.

3. What is one possible explanation the narrator entertains for why Felix seems to interested in her?
(a) He might be asking her for a job recommendation.
(b) He might be asking to borrow money.
(c) He might be asking to move in with her.
(d) He might be buttering her up because of some strange sexual fetish he has.

4. When does the sky begin to get light in Berlin on the narrator's first visit there?
(a) 2 a.m.
(b) 5 a.m.
(c) 3:30 a.m.
(d) 7 a.m.

5. How long does the narrator stay at her friend Jeremy's after finding out he is dead?
(a) One month.
(b) Three days.
(c) A little more than a week.
(d) Two weeks.

6. What kind of attitudes does the narrator say people who work in video production usually have?
(a) Fasttidious.
(b) Unfathomably carefree.
(c) Uptight.
(d) Academic.

7. When does the narrator cry for the first time after finding out about Felix's death?
(a) When she talks to her best friend.
(b) When she gets back to her apartment.
(c) When she talks to her mother.
(d) When she gets back to Jeremy's apartment.

8. Where is Felix working when the narrator first meets him?
(a) As a professional karaoke singer.
(b) As a bike courier in Berlin.
(c) As a translator for an academic publisher.
(d) As a tour guide for a pub crawl.

9. What does Felix buy the narrator at the bar?
(a) A shot.
(b) A Berlinder Kindl.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A vial of drugs.

10. What is one of the best lessons the narrator says she ever learned?
(a) How to disable an attacker in one quick motion.
(b) The concept of sunk cost.
(c) How to really embrace sadness.
(d) How to use a coat hanger to pick a lock.

11. Who is the narrator with when she finds out Felix has died?
(a) Her friend Heather.
(b) Jeremy.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

12. What does the narrator drink on the pub crawl in Part I?
(a) Beer.
(b) Wine.
(c) Shots.
(d) Whisky.

13. What does Felix's mother send to the narrator?
(a) A picture of Felix as a young child.
(b) A book.
(c) A teddy bear.
(d) $1,000.

14. Who does the narrator routinely refer to as sort of watching her story and commenting on it from the sidelines?
(a) The ex-boyfriends.
(b) The best friends.
(c) The singers.
(d) The parents.

15. Who is elected to the U.S. presidency in Part I?
(a) Mitt Romney.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Donald Trump.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kasia tell the narrator about Felix?

2. Why does the narrator eventually leave the women's march early?

3. Who is the narrator planning to stay with at the women's march?

4. What is the title of the narrator's boyfriend's account that he posts conspiracy theories on?

5. Where do the narrator and Felix get a beer after the bar?

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