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

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

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

4. What does Fang do for a living?
(a) Professor.
(b) Hedge fund manager.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Lawyer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Joan go to college?

2. What are math proofs like for Joan?

3. How does Joan describe her own physical appearance?

4. Where was Fang born?

5. What happens to Joan's neighbor after he becomes a father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

2. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

3. What does the hospital director suddenly offer Joan in Part II?

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

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

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

7. What does Joan do when she is given her own office at the hospital?

8. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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