Chemistry: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How does the narrator's father react to her getting into graduate school? (from Pages 66 - 108)

He shakes her hand and shows no other emotion.

He tells her that he is proud of her.

He appears uninterested.

He asks why she did not get into a better school.

2.

How does the narrator describe her father's upbringing? (from Pages 1 - 30)

Her father's parents told him that he could become whatever he wanted.

Her father's parents were engineers and pressured him to become one.

Her father grew up poor and studied hard to better himself.

Her father had family members who emigrated to the United States.

3.

What effect does the story about the piece of candy the narrator tells Eric at the end of the novel have? (from Pages 175 - 211)

It reflects her desire to go to China.

It shows that she identifies as more Chinese than American.

It shows that she has moved on.

It emphasizes how much his departure affected her emotionally.

4.

How does the narrator react to the classmates joke about Asian parents only giving their children the option of being a doctor? (from Pages 31 - 65)

She kicks her classmate.

She is furious and internalizes her anger.

She discusses it with her parents.

She agrees that this is true.

5.

Why does the narrator contrast Clara and Fritz Haber with Marie and Pierre Curie? (from Pages 175 - 211)

One couple shows how science can make the world better, and the other shows how science can make the world worse.

She realizes that marriages can fall between the extremes of good and bad.

She laments that the wives in both marriage were mistreated by their husband.

Their marriages prove that the narrator and Eric would never have been happy.

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