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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. Who is the mother of the children who interviews the narrator?

2. Who is the first person the narrator asks to go to her visa appointment with her?

3. What does the narrator tell her date when she is pretending to be a Taurus?

4. What does the narrator tell the German PhD student she used to study?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What lie does the narrator tell Genevieve about her professional history?

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

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

4. How does the narrator eventually decide to approach all her dates?

5. How does the narrator find an apartment to rent in Berlin?

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

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

8. How does the narrator react to the three men who corner her at the bookshop?

9. Where does the narrator initially turn for advice on how to get a visa in Germany?

10. What prompts the narrator to start a profile on dating websites?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the narrator's complicated range of feelings about social media, and about her own use and dependence of/on it, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why does the narrator decide, ultimately, to go to Berlin on an open-ended timeline following Felix's death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the narrator's attitude towards sex, dating, and relationships, and how does Oyler clue the reader in about the narrator's feelings on these topics? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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