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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 does Joan feel uncomfortable about on her trip to China?

2. What does Madeline once ask Joan as a joke?

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

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

5. What does Joan do for Thanksgiving?

Short Essay Questions

1. When do Joan's parents move back to China from America?

2. What does Joan seem to think of Reese?

3. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

4. How does Joan find out her mother is in Greenwich?

5. What does Fang insist on when he and Joan fly to China together?

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

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

8. How does Fang make Joan feel in general?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Wang describe Joan's changing relationship with her own mother as the novel continues? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Joan think being left behind in China for so long and separated from their parents has affected Fang's life path, and why does she think this? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Towards the end of the novel, how does Joan establish boundaries and have a relationship with her neighbor Mark on her own terms? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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