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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 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.

2. What does the narrator think would make the kind of books of collected tweets that she sometimes sees at Urban Outfitters better?
(a) Making the cover art more colorful.
(b) Eliminating them entirely.
(c) Adding more authors' names to the covers.
(d) Making them into novels or memoirs that contained no tweets.

3. Who is the narrator's friend that she writes nasty things about in her journal in school?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Kayla.
(c) Nell.
(d) Michaela.

4. What does the narrator tell her date when she is pretending to be a Taurus?
(a) Her father abandoned her mother when she was five years old.
(b) Her mother was a professional roller skater.
(c) Her mother was a writer who drowned in an accident.
(d) Her father was a famous jazz piano player.

5. Who is the first man to ask the narrator on a date in Berlin?
(a) Fred.
(b) Henry.
(c) Paul.
(d) James.

6. What job does the narrator assume for her date when she is pretending to be an Aries?
(a) Fortune teller.
(b) Landscaper.
(c) Message therapist.
(d) Dancer.

7. What does Felix ask the narrator during a long night of drinking and making out in a bar?
(a) If she thinks she wants to get married someday.
(b) If she would really like to be a journalist.
(c) If she has any sexual fantasies.
(d) If she would like to move in with him.

8. What surprises the narrator about the date she goes on in which she pretends her star sign is Leo?
(a) The date is also a writer.
(b) The date is a psychologist, which scares her.
(c) The date is Spanish.
(d) The date has read a lot of her online writing.

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

10. What major decision does the narrator make in Part III?
(a) To try to get married in Germany.
(b) To try to get a German visa.
(c) To ask her mother to move to Germany.
(d) To ask Felix's mother what was in his will.

11. In Part IV, which date cancels their plans on the narrator?
(a) A man who played the banjo.
(b) A horseback writer.
(c) A software engineer.
(d) A political activist.

12. What does the narrator tell the men in the Bookshop she does for a living?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Singer.
(d) Professional dancer.

13. How does the narrator feel about the time she had sex with Felix after showing up at his apartment a little drunk?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) A big disgusted with herself.
(c) Happy.
(d) She has no strong feelings about this event.

14. What does Frieda tell the narrator when she says she thinks she should probably take a German class?
(a) English is better.
(b) Italian is better.
(c) French is better.
(d) Spanish is better.

15. What lie does the narrator tell one date about all her ex-boyfriends?
(a) They were all Americans.
(b) They were all blond.
(c) They were all Geminis.
(d) They were all Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the narrator ask herself after going on her first date with the person she meets through the dating website?

2. What does the narrator often do as she walks the babies in the morning?

3. What does the narrator realize she needs to apply for a German visa?

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

5. Who is the mother of the children who interviews the narrator?

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