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What's a for-sure deal breaker when you're on a date?
- A.
He or she has an AOL email address. Or wears cargo pants.
- B.
Conversation mostly consists of utter loathing and chastisement.
- C.
He or she misquotes The Great Gatsby, like, a lot.
- D.
Coffee breath. ALWAYS with the coffee breath.
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- 2.
What do you look for in a significant other?
- A.
Charisma and the ability to make excellent empenadas.
- B.
I prefer for him or her to feel slightly inferior and to always be guessing.
- C.
Enigma, with healthy doses of recklessness.
- D.
Please don't make me go hunting.
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- 3.
What kinds of stories do you tend to be drawn to?
- A.
Ill-fated lovers. Secrets. Sadness.
- B.
The more dysfunctional the marriage, the better.
- C.
The characters are mostly repugnant, and I can totally relate.
- D.
The world is a hopeful place. Unless you're from another country and refuse to acquiesce to American culture.
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- 4.
How do you like to spend your free time?
- A.
Thinking about deep shit.
- B.
Avoiding myself.
- C.
Judging people.
- D.
I'm just trying to get by, man.
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- 5.
Out of the authors below, you are most likely to pick up a book by:
- A.
Lydia Davis
- B.
John Cheever
- C.
Annie Proulx
- D.
Lorrie Moore
- E.
Phillip Roth
- F.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- G.
Junot Diaz
- H.
Rachel Kushner
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- 6.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
- A.
Raising a family. Trying to get some writing time in before the kids wake up.
- B.
As long as there’s a roof over my head…
- C.
Hell if I know. This definitely isn’t where I thought I’d be ten years ago.
- D.
Not working as a freelancer and living in a shitty one-bedroom apartment, hopefully.
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- 7.
I prefer to live in a place where…
- A.
…I can be relatively anonymous. The more I can keep to myself, the better.
- B.
…people don’t have such a small-town mentality. The burbs are the worst.
- C.
…it’s hip, but not self-consciously hip, you know?
- D.
…I won’t run into my ex. Or his or her friends. Or anyone that knows what happened between us.
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