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

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

3. How does Joan's mother pronounce her name?
(a) Joan-na.
(b) Jo-won.
(c) Joanie.
(d) Jen.

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

5. 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) Get a taxi.
(c) Bike to the hospital.
(d) Walk to the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark like to do?

2. What advice does the doorman give to Joan in Part I?

3. Who is Fang's wife?

4. How big is Fang's complex?

5. What does Joan feel uncomfortable about on her trip to China?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

3. What does Joan's mother like to consume regularly?

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

5. What is unusual about how Joan visits her mother in Greenwich?

6. How does Joan's father die?

7. What is one reason Joan does not like to go to her brother's big parties?

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

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

10. What does Joan's doorman often say to her?

(see the answer keys)

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