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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 theory does the first person the narrator is matched with through the dating site tell her about that she has never heard of before?
(a) Friends and then Enemies.
(b) Relationship Friends.
(c) Relationship Anarchy.
(d) Chaos Theory.

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

3. What does the narrator often do as she walks the babies in the morning?
(a) Eat.
(b) Talk on the phone.
(c) Listen to podcasts.
(d) Flirt with people.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator randomly meet while working in Part IV?

2. Who is the first person the narrator goes on a date with in Berlin that she was matched with through a dating site?

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

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

5. Where is Nell from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator seem to grudgingly admire about Nell?

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

3. What job does the narrator get in Part IV?

4. At the end of Part IV, what makes the narrator almost cry?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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