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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator once make an intern do in her office?
(a) Order her food.
(b) Pay for her massage.
(c) Take her dry cleaning out.
(d) Push-ups.

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

3. Who is the narrator planning to stay with at the women's march?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her old roommate.
(c) Her friend Jeremy.
(d) Her brother.

4. 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 he liked the exhibit.
(b) How much money he is making.
(c) What he wants to do later.
(d) How much he misses home.

5. What does the narrator find intriguing about her conversation with Felix at the bar the first night they meet?
(a) He asks her what she wants to be doing in ten years.
(b) He asks her what her Zodiac sign is.
(c) He asks her a lot of questions about herself.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

6. Who does the narrator meet on her way to the grocery store in Part II?
(a) Her roommate.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Her mother.
(d) A young Hasidic boy.

7. What do the narrator's friends think of her jokes following Felix's death?
(a) They are the best jokes she has ever told.
(b) They are attempts to mask her pain.
(c) They are genuinely funny.
(d) They are juvenile.

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

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

10. Who does the narrator accidentally hang out with for a while on her vacation in 2015?
(a) A famous painter.
(b) A famous singer.
(c) Two Brazilians.
(d) Her old college roommate.

11. What kind of literature does the narrator remember a lot of?
(a) Satire.
(b) Twentieth-century poetry.
(c) Medieval ballads.
(d) Non-fiction.

12. What do many people the narrator knows have as a result of stress?
(a) Mouth guards to prevent them from grinding their teeth.
(b) Special mattresses.
(c) Dream journals.
(d) Therapy pets.

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

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

15. What kind of classes does the narrator take in Part II?
(a) Dance.
(b) Peleton.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason Felix says he leaves Berlin for the U.S.?

2. Where does Felix take the pub crawl crowd that the narrator gets confused with a different place?

3. Who is the narrator with when she finds out Felix has died?

4. Who is the narrator's spiritual friend?

5. What kind of attitudes does the narrator say people who work in video production usually have?

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