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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 is Joan's favorite medical machine?

2. How does Joan describe her own physical appearance?

3. Where does Fang want Joan to move eventually?

4. How does Joan meet Mark?

5. How does Joan get out to Connecticut to visit her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fang insist on when he and Joan fly to China together?

2. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

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

5. What is one reason Joan does not like to go to her brother's big parties?

6. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

7. How does Joan's father die?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where does Joan feel most at home, and how does she describe her sense of home? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of Joan's memories of discrimination and racism that she experienced from her childhood? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do Joan's and Fang's financial situations contrast with those of their own parents from their childhood years? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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