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

2. What does Mark like to do?
(a) Play scrabble.
(b) Play tennis.
(c) Cook.
(d) Mow the lawn.

3. Why does Joan's mother say she did not want to move in with Joan?
(a) She does not like Joan as much as she likes Fang.
(b) Joan does not have enough space.
(c) Joan has no kids.
(d) Joan has no money.

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

5. Where do Joan's parents live?
(a) United Kingdom.
(b) Germany.
(c) China.
(d) Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Fang born?

2. What is Joan's first language?

3. How did Joan and Fang afford college?

4. What does Joan ask her mother not to tell Fang?

5. How many people come to Joan's father's funeral?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

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

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

9. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

10. How does Joan's father die?

(see the answer keys)

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