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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) So they could record her.
(d) Just so they could make fun of her.

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

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

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

5. What advice does the doorman give to Joan in Part I?
(a) Take heart and seize the day.
(b) Never wear socks with sandals.
(c) Always strive to be the bride.
(d) Install high-energy efficiency curtains in your home.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is one kind of degree the hospital director has?

4. What did Joan's first counselor in Scranton once ask her?

5. What does Joan like to feel in her work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

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

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

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

7. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

9. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

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

(see the answer keys)

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