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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. Who is Joan's closest male colleague?
2. Why does Joan's mother say she did not want to move in with Joan?
3. Where do Joan's parents move when they move back to China?
4. What did being in school often feel like to Joan?
5. What does the hospital director ask Joan in Part I?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?
2. What does Joan's doorman often say to her?
3. What does the hospital director suddenly offer Joan in Part II?
4. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?
5. What does Fang insist on when he and Joan fly to China together?
6. What does the Chinese phrase "to chat" - "liao tian" - literally mean (43)?
7. What do Joan's colleagues think is strange about her approach to her father's death?
8. What gestures do Joan and her mother do before Joan leaves her father's funeral?
9. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?
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
How does Joan feel about her Chinese heritage, and how does Wang describe her reluctance to talk about or exhibit her Chinese connections in front of her colleagues, especially? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions
Essay Topic 2
What pressures does Joan feel - and from which sources - to have children as she ages? How does she handle these intrusive pressures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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