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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the obnoxious British men at the meeting in Part III ask the narrator that makes the narrator mad?

2. What does Nell suggest that the narrator and she do together?

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

4. What does the narrator realize she needs to apply for a German visa?

5. What does the narrator think of the Canadian graphic designer she meets for a date?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the basis of Relationship Anarchy as the narrator understands it?

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

4. What do the ex-boyfriends tell the narrator about Twitter?

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

6. What does the narrator tell her new roommate Frieda about why she moves to Berlin?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think is Oyler's intended effect on the reader in her employment of the section headings she includes - Beginning, Backstory, Middle (Something Happens), Middle (Nothing Happens), Climax, and End? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How is the narrator's reaction to Felix's death affected by the fact that not only was she planning on breaking up with him imminently, but that she also told people she was going to break up with him? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the narrator's reasons for compulsively lying, especially on her series of dates in Berlin? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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