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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 does Joan feel uncomfortable about on her trip to China?
(a) Flying first class.
(b) The food.
(c) The sleep patterns.
(d) How much driving she has to do.

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

3. What does Joan's father apply for several times only to be rejected from?
(a) A bank loan.
(b) A teaching certification.
(c) College admission.
(d) A driver's license.

4. What is the only decoration in Joan's living room?
(a) A photo.
(b) A dry-erase board.
(c) A deer's head.
(d) A wall calendar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one classic book Mark gives Joan?

3. Where do Joan's parents live?

4. What airport does Joan fly out of for her trip to her father's funeral?

5. What kills Joan's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Joan's father die?

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

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

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

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

7. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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