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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. How does Joan describe her features?

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

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

4. Where do Joan's parents live?

5. Who is Joan's closest male colleague?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What shocks Mark about Joan in Part II?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Joan's mother like to consume regularly?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Wang describe the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City through Joan's eyes? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Wang suggest that Fang is so fixated on wealth and achievement? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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