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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 notice about the hospital director's secretary?

2. How long does Joan travel for for her father's funeral?

3. Where did Fang go to college?

4. Who does the doorman think Joan should get together with?

5. What does Joan's father do once on a visit to her at work rather than pay for parking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

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

3. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

4. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Wang suggest that Fang is so fixated on wealth and achievement? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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