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

2. 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) Where it hurts.
(d) If they are overweight.

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

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

5. How many hours per day does Joan teach?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 3 to 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Fang want to take Joan when he comes to visit her in Boston during college?

2. What does Joan like to feel in her work?

3. What does Joan notice about the hospital director's secretary?

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

5. What is one city Joan's family previously lived in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

2. What question does Joan increasingly get from co-workers and friends as she ages?

3. What do Joan's colleagues think is strange about her approach to her father's death?

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

5. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Joan's father die?

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