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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 do Fang and Joan test-drive on one of Joan's visits to Fang?

2. Where was Fang born?

3. Where did Joan go to college?

4. How does Joan describe her features?

5. What does the hospital director ask Joan in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan's doorman often say to her?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

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

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

10. How does Joan's father die?

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 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

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