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

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

3. Who does the doorman think Joan should get together with?
(a) Mike.
(b) Herbert.
(c) John.
(d) Mark.

4. How does Joan meet Mark?
(a) They stand in line for tickets together once.
(b) They are neighbors.
(c) They are co-workers.
(d) They go to the same church.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does Joan travel for for her father's funeral?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

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

4. What gestures do Joan and her mother do before Joan leaves her father's funeral?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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