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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. 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?

2. What is one characteristic of the first person the narrator meets for a date through the dating website?

3. What does the narrator tell her date when she is pretending to be a Taurus?

4. What does the narrator sometimes find herself perusing on social media, without quite knowing why?

5. What kind of message does the narrator think moving to a foreign country where she knows no one and does not speak the language send?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator eventually decide to base the personalities of her characters for her dates on?

2. What is one reason the narrator found it comforting to be around Felix that she reveals in Part IV?

3. Why does the narrator start to get annoyed as she goes on more and more first dates?

4. How does the narrator describe time spent on Twitter?

5. What job does the narrator get in Part IV?

6. At the end of Part IV, what makes the narrator almost cry?

7. How does the narrator spend much of her first several weeks in Berlin?

8. How does the narrator eventually decide to approach all her dates?

9. What lie does the narrator tell Genevieve about her professional history?

10. What problem does the narrator have navigating getting health insurance in Germany?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oyler sometimes employs a caustic tone in the narrator's criticisms of those around her, of their work/writing, and of their use of social media. Write an essay exploring Oyler's use of humor, sarcasm and parody throughout this novel.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the narrator's reasons for compulsively lying, especially on her series of dates in Berlin? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think Felix's reasons for faking his own death are? What conclusion does the narrator seem to come to, if any, on this topic?

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