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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 is the name of Svetlana and Silen's friend who is in love with two different girls named Diane?

2. Over the summer, who was Svetlana's co-leader for a freshman pre-orientation program?

3. In "The First Week," what class are Svetlana and Selin taking that counts as two classes?

4. After Selin watches The Usual Suspects what does she see Svetlana is eating in the Quincy dining hall?

5. Where did Svetlana spend the summer at her grandmother's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Selin consider was the worst part of her childhood?

2. What does Selin observe about a professor who teaches an ethics seminar she audits in "The Third Week"?

3. How did Selin and Ivan part in July?

4. When did Selin realize that she was not good at creative writing?

5. What type of bag did Selin buy for her sophomore year of college?

6. In "The Fourth Week," where does Selin go when she is tired of a conversation in her suite's common room?

7. Why is Svetlana good at memorizing?

8. What does Selin learn about Kierkegaard's book Either/Or by reading the introduction?

9. Where was Selin's block assigned, and where did Riley get them transferred?

10. Where did Svetlana spend her summer and how was her trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lakshmi plans to have an arranged marriage. Why does Lakshmi believe arranged marriages are preferable to love matches?

Essay Topic 2

Selin wanted to be a novelist even before she could read. Why has Selin wanted to be a novelist? Why might becoming a novelist be a problem for her?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a narrative takes place. What are the settings in Either/Or? How do the settings evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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