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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 favorite medical machine?
(a) ECMO.
(b) Helios.
(c) ROMO.
(d) JACMO.

2. Why did Joan's classmates as children sometimes ask her to speak Chinese?
(a) Just so they could make fun of her.
(b) So they could record her.
(c) So they could hear her native tongue because they were curious.
(d) So they could scare the teachers.

3. What does Joan's mother do when she tries to hug her upon her departure from China?
(a) Recoil.
(b) Hug Joan back.
(c) Tell Joan not to touch her.
(d) Nothing.

4. How long is Joan's flight back to the U.S. from China?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 14 hours.
(c) 8 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

5. What does Joan not own that surprises Mark?
(a) A refrigerator.
(b) A television.
(c) A baseball bat.
(d) A microwave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Fang live?

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

3. Who does the doorman think Joan should get together with?

4. What is the only decoration in Joan's living room?

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

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

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

5. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

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

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

9. What kind of work does Fang do and how does he feel about it?

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

(see the answer keys)

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