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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. How does Joan think death can be handled?

2. How does Joan remember herself as a child?

3. What does Madeline once ask Joan as a joke?

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

5. Who is Joan's closest male colleague?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

9. How does Joan find out her mother is in Greenwich?

10. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

How does Joan handle the event of her father's death, and why do some people around her - especially at work - think how she handles it is odd? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Wang describe the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City through Joan's eyes? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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