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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 Fang tell Joan about her work-life balance?

2. What is Joan's favorite medical machine?

3. What do the doctors in the ICU always ask patients?

4. How long is Joan's flight back to the U.S. from China?

5. Where does Fang want Joan to move eventually?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?

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

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

4. How does Joan's father die?

5. What does Joan do when she is given her own office at the hospital?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How does Joan think being left behind in China for so long and separated from their parents has affected Fang's life path, and why does she think this? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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