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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the narrator's roommate in Berlin?
(a) Jennfier.
(b) Frieda.
(c) Selma.
(d) Kate.

2. How does the narrator find an apartment in Berlin?
(a) By looking relentlessly online.
(b) By asking her best friend, who has connections in Berlin.
(c) By enlisting the help of the U.S. embassy.
(d) By asking Felix's mother to help her.

3. Who is the first person the narrator asks to go to her visa appointment with her?
(a) Bergman.
(b) Henry.
(c) Frieda.
(d) Felix.

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

5. How does the narrator feel upon waking from her bad dream in Part IV?
(a) Sad.
(b) Terrified.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Trapped.

6. 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 really dislikes women who always wear skirts.
(b) She does not understand other women at all.
(c) She is not the type of person to make friends in foreign countries.
(d) She hates other writers.

7. Who does the narrator randomly meet while working in Part IV?
(a) Nell.
(b) Henry.
(c) Jeremy.
(d) Felix.

8. Why does the narrator tell her new roommate she is in Berlin?
(a) She is doing graduate school there.
(b) Her parents once lived there and she wants to see what it is like.
(c) She used to live there with her boyfriend.
(d) She got a new job there.

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

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

11. What does the narrator have to do with the twins every morning?
(a) Sing to them.
(b) Walk them.
(c) Feed them.
(d) Have them listen to music.

12. 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 them into novels or memoirs that contained no tweets.
(c) Making the cover art more colorful.
(d) Eliminating them entirely.

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

14. Where is Nell from?
(a) London.
(b) Barcelona.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Los Angeles.

15. What does the narrator realizes often happens on the dating websites when she asks to meet someone in person?
(a) The person often stops messaging her.
(b) The person tells her he is busy.
(c) The person asks if she can pay for the date.
(d) The person always suggests somewhere bad to meet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think of the Canadian graphic designer she meets for a date?

3. What does the narrator sometimes find herself perusing on social media, without quite knowing why?

4. What does the narrator say that doing things ironically sometimes leads to?

5. What does the friend who interprets the narrator's astrological birth chart tell her?

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