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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does the narrator try to avoid small talk in Berlin?
(a) She really does not want anyone to ask her on a date.
(b) It reminds her of Felix.
(c) She does not speak German at all.
(d) She is self-conscious of her English.

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

5. Which section of one dating site is mean to determine personality traits in relation to how well a user would get along with other users?
(a) Match Questions.
(b) The Box.
(c) Dream Journal.
(d) The Big Three.

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

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 blond.
(d) They were all Germans.

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

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

10. Where is the woman the narrator is subletting from living in Part III?
(a) Spain.
(b) Portugal.
(c) America.
(d) England.

11. What food does the narrator often eat in Berlin?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Salad.
(c) Falafel.
(d) Yogurt.

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

13. Where does the narrator have a layover on her flights to Berlin?
(a) Oslo.
(b) Chicago.
(c) London.
(d) Barcelona.

14. Who is the first person the narrator goes on a date with in Berlin that she was matched with through a dating site?
(a) Bergman.
(b) Paul.
(c) Henry.
(d) Fred.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the bar where she meets her first date that she goes on through the dating website?

3. What does one of the obnoxious British men at the meeting in Part III ask the narrator that makes the narrator mad?

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

5. Where does the narrator go in Part III in an effort to meet new people?

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