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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Fang want Joan to move eventually?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Greenwich.
(c) China.
(d) Barcelona.

3. What does Joan's mother do when she tries to hug her upon her departure from China?
(a) Recoil.
(b) Tell Joan not to touch her.
(c) Hug Joan back.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joan describe her features?

2. What does Joan's mother desperately want to do in America?

3. What does Fang do for a living?

4. Who is Joan's closest female colleague?

5. What does Joan's father do once on a visit to her at work rather than pay for parking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fang insist on when he and Joan fly to China together?

2. Why does Joan say she chose to work in intensive care?

3. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

4. How does Joan generally get along with her neighbors?

5. When do Joan's parents move back to China from America?

6. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

7. What surprises Joan's colleagues about her when they hear her on the phone?

8. What gestures do Joan and her mother do before Joan leaves her father's funeral?

9. What does the Chinese phrase "to chat" - "liao tian" - literally mean (43)?

10. What is the first death Joan can remember witnessing and processing?

(see the answer keys)

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