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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of message does the narrator think moving to a foreign country where she knows no one and does not speak the language send?
(a) One of competence.
(b) One of suspicion.
(c) One of desperation.
(d) One of anger.

2. 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 is confused.
(d) She wants to talk to the narrator about the frightening consequences of what she has learned.

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Making them into novels or memoirs that contained no tweets.
(d) Adding more authors' names to the covers.

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

9. What is one characteristic of the first person the narrator meets for a date through the dating website?
(a) He has a remarkable voice.
(b) He is quite short.
(c) He is overweight.
(d) He has very long hair.

10. 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 nasty.
(c) They were fair.
(d) They were not believable.

11. Where is one place the narrator's first dating-site date tells her he has worked?
(a) The John F. Kennedy School at Harvard.
(b) The New School.
(c) The Modern Museum of Art.
(d) The Flowingbell.

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

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

14. What surprises the narrator about her approach to dating in Part IV?
(a) It is much more fun than she thought it would be.
(b) It is making her sad.
(c) It is making her angry.
(d) It is taking more research than she had anticipated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about the consequences of public character building?

2. What does the narrator remember about how Felix interacted with her and others, despite his caginess?

3. Where is the woman the narrator is subletting from living in Part III?

4. What do even altruistic acts contain, according to the first person the narrator meets through the dating website?

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

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