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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does the doorman give to Joan in Part I?
(a) Install high-energy efficiency curtains in your home.
(b) Take heart and seize the day.
(c) Never wear socks with sandals.
(d) Always strive to be the bride.

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

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

4. Where did Joan go to college?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Brown.

5. What airport does Joan fly out of for her trip to her father's funeral?
(a) Newark.
(b) JFK.
(c) La Guardia.
(d) Tetterboro.

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

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

8. What does Joan do for Thanksgiving?
(a) Work.
(b) Go to Madeline's.
(c) Go to her brother's.
(d) Go to China.

9. What does Joan's father apply for several times only to be rejected from?
(a) A teaching certification.
(b) College admission.
(c) A bank loan.
(d) A driver's license.

10. What is Joan's first language?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Spanish.
(c) German.
(d) English.

11. What happens to Joan's neighbor after he becomes a father?
(a) He quits his job.
(b) He spends a lot of time in the apartment laundry room.
(c) He buys a dog.
(d) He has an affair.

12. How does Joan find out her mother is visiting Greenwich in Part II?
(a) She texts from an unknown American number.
(b) She does not find out until her mother has traveled back home.
(c) Her brother tells her.
(d) She runs into her on the train.

13. What are math proofs like for Joan?
(a) Art work.
(b) Puzzles.
(c) Friends.
(d) Foes.

14. What does the hospital director ask Joan in Part I?
(a) If she is planning on having kids.
(b) If she is color-blind.
(c) If she can speak Spanish.
(d) If she wants more time off.

15. Why did Joan's classmates as children sometimes ask her to speak Chinese?
(a) So they could hear her native tongue because they were curious.
(b) Just so they could make fun of her.
(c) So they could record her.
(d) So they could scare the teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the doorman think Joan should get together with?

2. How does Joan describe her own physical appearance?

3. How many people come to Joan's father's funeral?

4. Where do Joan's parents live?

5. Who is Joan's brother?

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