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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 German word does the narrator flub in trying to process her health insurance?
2. Who is the first person the narrator asks to go to her visa appointment with her?
3. How does the narrator describe the bar where she meets her first date that she goes on through the dating website?
4. What does a man outside the narrator's apartment try to practice with her one day, to her chagrin?
5. What job does the narrator assume for her date when she is pretending to be an Aries?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the basis of Relationship Anarchy as the narrator understands it?
2. What does the narrator think that an orgasm can be, especially if it is dramatic?
3. What is one reason the narrator found it comforting to be around Felix that she reveals in Part IV?
4. What prompts the narrator to start a profile on dating websites?
5. What is one slim possibility the narrator thinks her dating experiment and assuming personas might result in?
6. How does the narrator spend much of her first several weeks in Berlin?
7. How does the narrator eventually decide to approach all her dates?
8. At the end of Part IV, what makes the narrator almost cry?
9. How does the narrator describe time spent on Twitter?
10. Where does the narrator go to try to meet people in Berlin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Oyler sometimes employs a caustic tone in the narrator's criticisms of those around her, of their work/writing, and of their use of social media. Write an essay exploring Oyler's use of humor, sarcasm and parody throughout this novel.
Essay Topic 2
Why does the narrator join dating websites, and what is her experience once she is on them? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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