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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alexandra do the last time she asks for a raise at her old job?
(a) Yells in anger.
(b) Faints.
(c) Completely keeps her composure.
(d) Cries.

2. What is a major defining feature of Ithaca?
(a) The flowers.
(b) The ghost stories.
(c) All the water features - lakes and waterfalls.
(d) The new housing.

3. Who is the wealthy Chinese woman Alexandra's mother wants her to emulate married to?
(a) Reis Thibault.
(b) Mark Zuckerberg.
(c) Alan Hindelton.
(d) Rupert Murdoch.

4. What does Jasmine ask Alexandra in her first text since their falling out in Part IV?
(a) If Alexandra likes her photos for the pencil roundup.
(b) If Alexandra is pregnant.
(c) If Alexandra is still with J.
(d) If Alexandra is coming back to work.

5. Whose biography does Alexandra start to read in Part IV?
(a) Rupert Murdoch's.
(b) Wendi Deng's.
(c) Yamei Kin's.
(d) Mark Zuckerberg's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does J fix for Alexandra in Part III that makes her angry?

2. What does Alexandra build for herself?

3. What does Yamei Kin tell a New York audience that she is speaking of in 1904?

4. Where do Alexandra and J stop to see some of his relatives in their road trip?

5. Where does Alexandra meet the person selling her weed to make the transaction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alexandra tell Jasmine that causes hard feelings between them in Part III?

2. What does a former colleague of Alexandra's ask her to do that she does not want to do in Part IV?

3. How do J's parents treat J and Alexandra?

4. How does Alexandra's mother feel about her father continuing to call her?

5. Why does the professor's offer to Alexandra to teach at her university really insult Alexandra?

6. What kind of research does Alexandra start doing in Part III?

7. What does Alexandra's father do in Part IV that startles and scares her?

8. What is one of the major problems in Alexandra's relationship with J?

9. What is Alexandra's first impression of Ithaca like?

10. What does Alexandra's seventh grade history teacher say about Chinese people, and how do Alexandra and her mother react?

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