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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fang tell Joan about her work-life balance?
(a) She should quit and become a lawyer.
(b) She should quit and become a professor.
(c) Health is wealth and time is money.
(d) She should not be so aggressive with her co-workers and supervisors.

2. Who is Fang's wife?
(a) Ellie.
(b) Cori.
(c) Tami.
(d) Jen.

3. What kills Joan's father?
(a) A stroke.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A car accident.

4. How does Joan think death can be handled?
(a) In a traditional way or a modern way.
(b) In a hospital or outside of a hospital.
(c) Well or poorly.
(d) Gently or harshly.

5. What does Joan's mother tell her she wants to do while she is in America?
(a) Come to Joan's work.
(b) Buy new clothes.
(c) Be there more for Joan and have them talk more often.
(d) Cook for people on the street.

6. What does Joan ask her mother not to tell Fang?
(a) That Joan wants to move to China.
(b) That Joan is quitting her job.
(c) That Joan is having a baby.
(d) That Joan visited the house.

7. What does Joan think about when she thinks about people?
(a) How much money they make.
(b) How they walk.
(c) How happy they can really be.
(d) How much space they take up.

8. What is one classic book Mark gives Joan?
(a) Wuthering Heights.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) The Catcher in the Rye.

9. How does Joan remember herself as a child?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Disastrously clumsy.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Social.

10. Where do Joan's parents move when they move back to China?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Holong.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Xiaping.

11. What is one kind of degree the hospital director has?
(a) Art.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) History.

12. How big is Fang's complex?
(a) 10 acres.
(b) 20 acres.
(c) 2 acres.
(d) 30 acres.

13. Where does Fang want to take Joan when he comes to visit her in Boston during college?
(a) The Regal Room.
(b) The most expensive restaurant in the city.
(c) A small Chinese restaurant.
(d) A food truck.

14. Who is Joan's closest male colleague?
(a) Herbert.
(b) Winthrop.
(c) John.
(d) Reese.

15. What do Fang and Joan qualify for in public school?
(a) Free clothes.
(b) Sports instruction.
(c) Extra books.
(d) Free lunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What airport does Joan fly into in China in Part I?

2. What does the hospital director ask Joan in Part I?

3. What does Joan not own that surprises Mark?

4. How does Joan find out her mother is visiting Greenwich in Part II?

5. What does Joan's father apply for several times only to be rejected from?

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