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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator not want to return to New York City in Part III?
(a) She does not want to have to move back in with her old roommate in New York City.
(b) She is completely broke.
(c) She has come to hate New York City.
(d) It will feel like she just wasted her time in Berlin.

2. What does the narrator say that doing things ironically sometimes leads to?
(a) Legal trouble.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Disasters.
(d) Straightforward consequences.

3. Which Twitter user does the narrator find herself liking and following in Part III?
(a) @HelenofTroyWI
(b) @BetterKnowMe
(c) @WonderWomanFL
(d) @BrainChildSheba

4. What question does the narrator ask herself after going on her first date with the person she meets through the dating website?
(a) What would Felix have said about her in this situation?
(b) Will she have to move back to America to meet someone who likes her?
(c) Who is open on a first date?
(d) Will she ever meet someone she likes?

5. What does the narrator think about the consequences of public character building?
(a) They are unrealistic.
(b) They are the kind of thing parents think is a good idea until they actually happen.
(c) They are not as fun or useful as the fantasy of social media fame suggests.
(d) They might get a person a good new job.

6. What blogging platform does the narrator remember using back in middle school?
(a) Helper.
(b) WordBook.
(c) Writer.
(d) LiveJournal.

7. What does the narrator decide to do on her future dates with men from the dating website?
(a) Assume different fake personalities with them based on the Zodiac signs.
(b) To ask them all for money.
(c) To have sex with all of them.
(d) Be as nice as possible.

8. What problem does the narrator run into using social media in Berlin?
(a) Most of the people she knows on it are asleep when she is on it due to the time-zone difference.
(b) She can not reliably connect to the internet.
(c) She does not use social media at all in Berlin.
(d) She needs new eyeglasses to see the screen well enough to read it.

9. What kind of job does the narrator apply for and get?
(a) A job at a coffee shop.
(b) An accounting job.
(c) A part-time babysitting job.
(d) A writing job.

10. What does a man outside the narrator's apartment try to practice with her one day, to her chagrin?
(a) His comedy act.
(b) Tennis.
(c) His English.
(d) Badminton.

11. What does the narrator sometimes find herself perusing on social media, without quite knowing why?
(a) Her mother's accounts.
(b) Felix's old accounts.
(c) Her own old accounts.
(d) Her father's accounts.

12. What kind of message does the narrator think moving to a foreign country where she knows no one and does not speak the language send?
(a) One of anger.
(b) One of desperation.
(c) One of suspicion.
(d) One of competence.

13. What scene does the narrator witness that she thinks reflects poorly on its subjects?
(a) An American man hits a child in public.
(b) Two American women have a dog in a cafe that frightens a little boy.
(c) A Spanish woman berates a waiter for bringing her the wrong order.
(d) An American woman yells at a taxi driver.

14. Where does the narrator go in Part III in an effort to meet new people?
(a) A karate class.
(b) A weekly dinner at an English bookshop.
(c) A musuem.
(d) A dance club.

15. What does the narrator realize she needs to apply for a German visa?
(a) A sponsor.
(b) A phone.
(c) A car.
(d) Health insurance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator have to do with the twins every morning?

2. Where is Nell from?

3. How does the narrator spend her first weeks in Berlin?

4. How does the narrator find an apartment in Berlin?

5. What does the narrator decide to do after her first date in Berlin?

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