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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. 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 got a new job there.
(d) She used to live there with her boyfriend.

2. 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) Eliminating them entirely.
(d) Making the cover art more colorful.

3. Who is the mother of the children who interviews the narrator?
(a) Helena.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Rena.
(d) Genevieve.

4. What does a man outside the narrator's apartment try to practice with her one day, to her chagrin?
(a) Badminton.
(b) Tennis.
(c) His English.
(d) His comedy act.

5. What health insurance does the narrator choose to fulfil her visa application requirement?
(a) TK.
(b) Friedenberg.
(c) Allied.
(d) Spitzl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine about the man she meets at the Greek cafe?

2. What food does the narrator often eat in Berlin?

3. What movie does the narrator's mother take her to when she is 7 years old?

4. What does the narrator admit to herself about her fake dates?

5. What job does the narrator assume for her date when she is pretending to be an Aries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do to her friend Kayla in middle school that is terrible?

2. Why does the narrator start to get annoyed as she goes on more and more first dates?

3. Why did the narrator always say was one reason she did not want children?

4. How does the narrator approach the necessity of speaking German in Berlin?

5. What problem does the narrator have navigating getting health insurance in Germany?

6. What is one reason the narrator found it comforting to be around Felix that she reveals in Part IV?

7. How does the narrator spend much of her first several weeks in Berlin?

8. What does the narrator eventually decide to base the personalities of her characters for her dates on?

9. Where does the narrator go to try to meet people in Berlin?

10. What is one slim possibility the narrator thinks her dating experiment and assuming personas might result in?

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