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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lie does the narrator's boyfriend tell about her in Part I to a waiter?
(a) That she got accepted to a PhD program.
(b) That she is a radio producer.
(c) That she is a singer.
(d) That she is a MacArthur Genius.

2. Where and when does the narrator usually write her longer stories?
(a) In the office, during the day.
(b) At a university, during the working day.
(c) Outside the office, at night or on weekends.
(d) At her mother's house on the weekends.

3. Who does the narrator drive to the women's march with?
(a) Two people she has never met.
(b) Her former roommate.
(c) Felix.
(d) Her sister.

4. Where is Felix working when the narrator first meets him?
(a) As a bike courier in Berlin.
(b) As a professional karaoke singer.
(c) As a translator for an academic publisher.
(d) As a tour guide for a pub crawl.

5. What do the narrator's friends think of her jokes following Felix's death?
(a) They are attempts to mask her pain.
(b) They are the best jokes she has ever told.
(c) They are genuinely funny.
(d) They are juvenile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator's spiritual friend?

2. What annoys the narrator on her walk across the Williamsburg Bridge?

3. How does the narrator describe some of Felix's opinions?

4. What does the narrator drink on the pub crawl in Part I?

5. Who does the narrator routinely refer to as sort of watching her story and commenting on it from the sidelines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Felix tell the narrator he does for a living when they first meet?

2. Where does the narrator meet Felix and what does she think of him at first?

3. How does the narrator react to finding out about Felix's conspiracy theory postings?

4. How does the narrator describe her use of social media?

5. What was the narrator planning to do when she got back from the Women's March?

6. What does the narrator often hear, as a generality, that her generation values?

7. Who approaches the narrator repeatedly when she goes to buy breakfast ingredients, and what does this person do to her?

8. What is unusual about the narrator's first conversation with Felix?

9. How does the narrator feel about her job writing for the website she works for?

10. How does the narrator feel about the Women's March once she is there?

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