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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the men in the Bookshop she does for a living?
(a) Writer.
(b) Singer.
(c) Professional dancer.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What does the narrator tell the German PhD student she used to study?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Math.
(d) Gender Studies.

3. What does the narrator admit to herself about her fake dates?
(a) She will probably not stop going on fake dates.
(b) She is sorry to be doing this to men.
(c) She is never going to find love this way, or even meaningful connection.
(d) She loves them.

4. Which Twitter user does the narrator find herself liking and following in Part III?
(a) @WonderWomanFL
(b) @HelenofTroyWI
(c) @BrainChildSheba
(d) @BetterKnowMe

5. What does the narrator sometimes find herself perusing on social media, without quite knowing why?
(a) Her mother's accounts.
(b) Her father's accounts.
(c) Felix's old accounts.
(d) Her own old accounts.

6. Where is one place the narrator's first dating-site date tells her he has worked?
(a) The Flowingbell.
(b) The Modern Museum of Art.
(c) The John F. Kennedy School at Harvard.
(d) The New School.

7. What does the narrator realize she needs to apply for a German visa?
(a) A sponsor.
(b) Health insurance.
(c) A car.
(d) A phone.

8. What does the narrator buy in Part IV?
(a) A coffee machine.
(b) A bike.
(c) A new hairdryer.
(d) A plane ticket.

9. How does the narrator feel about astrology?
(a) She believes in it wholeheartedly.
(b) She thinks only uneducated people believe in it.
(c) She knows it is fake.
(d) She thinks only older people believe in it.

10. What is one characteristic of the first person the narrator meets for a date through the dating website?
(a) He has very long hair.
(b) He has a remarkable voice.
(c) He is overweight.
(d) He is quite short.

11. How does the narrator describe the bar where she meets her first date that she goes on through the dating website?
(a) Modern.
(b) Dumpy.
(c) Very smoky.
(d) Hipster.

12. What problem does the narrator run into using social media in Berlin?
(a) She needs new eyeglasses to see the screen well enough to read it.
(b) She does not use social media at all in Berlin.
(c) She can not reliably connect to the internet.
(d) Most of the people she knows on it are asleep when she is on it due to the time-zone difference.

13. What does the narrator tell her date when she is pretending to be a Taurus?
(a) Her father abandoned her mother when she was five years old.
(b) Her mother was a professional roller skater.
(c) Her mother was a writer who drowned in an accident.
(d) Her father was a famous jazz piano player.

14. How does the narrator spend her first weeks in Berlin?
(a) Going out to dinner every night.
(b) Going to museums.
(c) Going dancing every night.
(d) In bed, scrolling through social media.

15. Who is the first person the narrator goes on a date with in Berlin that she was matched with through a dating site?
(a) Bergman.
(b) Paul.
(c) Fred.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator find an apartment in Berlin?

2. Which section of one dating site is mean to determine personality traits in relation to how well a user would get along with other users?

3. Why does the narrator tell her new roommate she is in Berlin?

4. What does the narrator discover that landlords in Berlin hate?

5. What does the narrator remember about how Felix interacted with her and others, despite his caginess?

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