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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. Why did Joan's classmates as children sometimes ask her to speak Chinese?
2. What does Joan do for Thanksgiving?
3. What does Fang tell Joan about her work-life balance?
4. What airport does Joan fly out of for her trip to her father's funeral?
5. What does Joan ask her mother not to tell Fang?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Joan find out her mother is in Greenwich?
2. What does the Chinese phrase "to chat" - "liao tian" - literally mean (43)?
3. When do Joan's parents move back to China from America?
4. What does Joan's mother like to consume regularly?
5. What did Joan once read that empathy involves?
6. What kind of work does Fang do and how does he feel about it?
7. What is unusual about how Joan visits her mother in Greenwich?
8. What does Joan do when she is given her own office at the hospital?
9. What question does Joan increasingly get from co-workers and friends as she ages?
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 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 2
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 3
What does getting quite sick with COVID-19 make Joan realize about her work, her colleagues, her neighbors, and her family? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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