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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about astrology?
(a) She believes in it wholeheartedly.
(b) She knows it is fake.
(c) She thinks only uneducated people believe in it.
(d) She thinks only older people believe in it.

2. How does the narrator describe the bar where she meets her first date that she goes on through the dating website?
(a) Hipster.
(b) Very smoky.
(c) Dumpy.
(d) Modern.

3. What does the narrator often do as she walks the babies in the morning?
(a) Flirt with people.
(b) Eat.
(c) Listen to podcasts.
(d) Talk on the phone.

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

5. What does the narrator remember about how Felix interacted with her and others, despite his caginess?
(a) He was responsive to others.
(b) He offered decent advice.
(c) He had seemed as if he was fair and honest.
(d) He was a bad listener.

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator remember one ex-boyfriend telling her about her reasons for breaking up with him in Part IV?
(a) They were abstract.
(b) They were fair.
(c) They were not believable.
(d) They were nasty.

10. Who is the mother of the children who interviews the narrator?
(a) Genevieve.
(b) Helena.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Rena.

11. What does the friend who interprets the narrator's astrological birth chart tell her?
(a) She could not complete her project.
(b) She is stunned by its clarity.
(c) She wants to talk to the narrator about the frightening consequences of what she has learned.
(d) She is confused.

12. What does the narrator feel after she meets a vague acquaintance by chance from earlier in Berlin outside a coffee shop in Part IV?
(a) She is not the type of person to make friends in foreign countries.
(b) She hates other writers.
(c) She really dislikes women who always wear skirts.
(d) She does not understand other women at all.

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

14. What German word does the narrator flub in trying to process her health insurance?
(a) The word for help.
(b) The word for black.
(c) The word for print.
(d) The word for paper.

15. What happens on the narrator's first date in Berlin in Part III?
(a) Her date never shows up.
(b) Her date throws up on her.
(c) Her date has no money and she has to pay for the drinks.
(d) Her date tells her he is just looking for a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator randomly meet while working in Part IV?

2. Who is the first person the narrator asks to go to her visa appointment with her?

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

4. What surprises the narrator about her approach to dating in Part IV?

5. Why does the narrator tell her new roommate she is in Berlin?

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