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

2. What movie does the narrator's mother take her to when she is 7 years old?
(a) Back to the Future.
(b) Harriet the Spy.
(c) The Idiot.
(d) Buffy.

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

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

5. What does the narrator buy in Part IV?
(a) A bike.
(b) A coffee machine.
(c) A new hairdryer.
(d) A plane ticket.

6. What does Nell suggest that the narrator and she do together?
(a) Start a writing group.
(b) Water ski.
(c) Search for jobs together.
(d) Have dinner.

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

8. Which dating site required users to post real photos of themselves?
(a) Beakish.
(b) Friendler.
(c) OKCupid.
(d) Bam.

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

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

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

12. What does the narrator admit to herself about her fake dates?
(a) She is sorry to be doing this to men.
(b) She loves them.
(c) She will probably not stop going on fake dates.
(d) She is never going to find love this way, or even meaningful connection.

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

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

15. What does the narrator tell the German PhD student she used to study?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Math.
(c) Gender Studies.
(d) Anthropology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Felix ask the narrator during a long night of drinking and making out in a bar?

2. How does the narrator feel about the time she had sex with Felix after showing up at his apartment a little drunk?

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

4. About how long does the narrator say she could go, while dating Felix, without having sex?

5. What does the narrator realizes often happens on the dating websites when she asks to meet someone in person?

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