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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. How does Joan remember herself as a child?
(a) Disastrously clumsy.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Social.

2. What kills Joan's father?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A stroke.

3. How does Joan describe her features?
(a) Prosaic.
(b) Repugnant.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Silly.

4. What is one city Joan's family previously lived in?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Wichita.
(c) Cobh.
(d) Helena.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joan like to feel in her work?

2. What did being in school often feel like to Joan?

3. Who does the doorman think Joan should get together with?

4. What does Joan ask her mother not to tell Fang?

5. How does Joan meet Mark?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan like to feel like after her long shifts?

2. What is unusual about how Joan visits her mother in Greenwich?

3. What question does Joan increasingly get from co-workers and friends as she ages?

4. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Joan say she chose to work in intensive care?

10. What does Joan's doorman often say to her?

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