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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. Why did Joan's classmates as children sometimes ask her to speak Chinese?
(a) So they could scare the teachers.
(b) So they could hear her native tongue because they were curious.
(c) So they could record her.
(d) Just so they could make fun of her.

2. What do the doctors in the ICU always ask patients?
(a) If they can stand to wait longer.
(b) If they are suffering from ARDS.
(c) Where it hurts.
(d) If they are overweight.

3. How many people come to Joan's father's funeral?
(a) 19.
(b) 100.
(c) 250.
(d) 1,000.

4. What does the hospital director offer Joan in Part I?
(a) A cake.
(b) A fellowship.
(c) A step down.
(d) A raise.

5. What do Joan and her mother frequently drink?
(a) Hot water.
(b) Iced tea.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Lemonade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Chinese phrase for gossiping?

2. Where does Fang want Joan to move eventually?

3. Who is Fang's wife?

4. What do Fang's invitations usually come in?

5. What does Joan's father do once on a visit to her at work rather than pay for parking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first death Joan can remember witnessing and processing?

2. How does Joan's father die?

3. What does the hospital director suddenly offer Joan in Part II?

4. How does Joan generally get along with her neighbors?

5. What do Joan's colleagues think is strange about her approach to her father's death?

6. What is one reason Joan does not like to go to her brother's big parties?

7. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

8. What does the Chinese phrase "to chat" - "liao tian" - literally mean (43)?

9. What does Joan do when she is given her own office at the hospital?

10. What gestures do Joan and her mother do before Joan leaves her father's funeral?

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