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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joan's father apply for several times only to be rejected from?

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

3. What airport does Joan fly into in China in Part I?

4. What do Joan and her mother frequently drink?

5. How does Joan describe her own physical appearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joan's father die?

2. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

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

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

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

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

7. What does the hospital director suddenly offer Joan in Part II?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Joan feel about her Chinese heritage, and how does Wang describe her reluctance to talk about or exhibit her Chinese connections in front of her colleagues, especially? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Wang means to communicate to the reader about medicine and Reese's character through his interactions with Joan? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do Joan's feelings about Mark, her neighbor, change over the course of the novel, and why do they change? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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