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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 lie does the narrator tell one date about all her ex-boyfriends?

2. What kind of job does the narrator apply for and get?

3. What does the narrator decide to do after her first date in Berlin?

4. Where is the woman the narrator is subletting from living in Part III?

5. What German word does the narrator flub in trying to process her health insurance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basis of Relationship Anarchy as the narrator understands it?

2. Where does the narrator go to try to meet people in Berlin?

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

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

5. How does the narrator approach the necessity of speaking German in Berlin?

6. How does the narrator react to the three men who corner her at the bookshop?

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

8. What is one slim possibility the narrator thinks her dating experiment and assuming personas might result in?

9. Why did the narrator always say was one reason she did not want children?

10. What do the ex-boyfriends tell the narrator about Twitter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Oyler treat the topics of loyalty, good faith, and deception in this novel, and what is the relationship between the three? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does the narrator decide, ultimately, to go to Berlin on an open-ended timeline following Felix's death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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