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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 get out to Connecticut to visit her mother?
(a) Car.
(b) Bus.
(c) Train.
(d) Ferry.

2. What do Joan and her mother frequently drink?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Hot water.
(c) Iced tea.
(d) Lemonade.

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

4. Who is Joan's brother?
(a) Wen.
(b) Han.
(c) Fang.
(d) Jin.

5. What does Madeline once ask Joan as a joke?
(a) If she can rake leaves.
(b) If she can cook well.
(c) How she feels about having kids.
(d) If she is in love with her neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the hospital director ask Joan in Part I?

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

4. Where do Joan's parents move when they move back to China?

5. Who is Joan's closest male colleague?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Joan's father die?

3. What does Joan like to feel like after her long shifts?

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

5. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

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

7. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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