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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joan describe her features?
(a) Prosaic.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Silly.
(d) Repugnant.

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

3. What is the Chinese phrase for gossiping?
(a) Liao tian.
(b) Ni hao.
(c) Ho wen.
(d) Chi Biao.

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

5. What airport does Joan fly into in China in Part I?
(a) Fong.
(b) Pudong.
(c) Kiwong.
(d) Helong.

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

7. What do Fang's invitations usually come in?
(a) In the form of singing telegrams.
(b) Surprise cans.
(c) Silk envelopes.
(d) Cheap envelopes.

8. What does Joan not own that surprises Mark?
(a) A television.
(b) A refrigerator.
(c) A microwave.
(d) A baseball bat.

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

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

11. How long does Joan travel for for her father's funeral?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 1 weekend.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 month.

12. What do the doctors in the ICU always ask patients?
(a) If they are suffering from ARDS.
(b) If they can stand to wait longer.
(c) If they are overweight.
(d) Where it hurts.

13. What does Joan's father do once on a visit to her at work rather than pay for parking?
(a) Keep the car running the whole time.
(b) Bike to the hospital.
(c) Get a taxi.
(d) Walk to the hospital.

14. How does Joan think employers once saw her brother Fang?
(a) As a bad bet.
(b) As a potential human resources complication.
(c) As a potential professor.
(d) As a diamond in the rough.

15. Where does Fang live?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Greenwich.
(d) Barcelona.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joan get out to Connecticut to visit her mother?

2. What is one kind of degree the hospital director has?

3. Where was Fang born?

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

5. What did being in school often feel like to Joan?

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