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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. Which book inspired Frances to become a writer?
(a) Jane Eyre.
(b) Wuthering Heights.
(c) Little Women.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

2. What does Napoleon do for a living?
(a) He is a therapist.
(b) He is a schoolteacher.
(c) He is a nurse.
(d) He is an athletic trainer.

3. What activity occurs in the middle of the first night?
(a) The starlight meditation.
(b) The midnight musing.
(c) The night reflection.
(d) The late study.

4. As the novel begins, Yao is called to help a woman named whom?
(a) Magda.
(b) Milla.
(c) Masha.
(d) Marta.

5. What is installed throughout the Tranquillum House property?
(a) A sprinkler system.
(b) Meditation posts.
(c) CCTV cameras.
(d) Ornate water fountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lars's partner want Lars to do?

2. What contraband did Zoe successfully smuggle into Tranquillum House?

3. Who seems to familiar to Lars, although he cannot put a face to the name?

4. What is the name of Tony's dog, who recently died?

5. Why did Jessica want to come to Tranquillum House?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the noble silence, and how do Ben and Jessica's feelings about it differ in Chapter 7?

2. Masha keeps receiving emails from which person? How does she respond?

3. What does the reader learn about Tony in Chapter 18?

4. What do Masha and Frances have in common, as Frances discovers in Chapter 23?

5. Frances is concerned to see what happen during their morning hike in Chapter 17?

6. In Chapter 28, whom does Heather remember seeing in the hospital cafeteria? How did she react?

7. Who is Zach and what does the reader learn about him in Chapter 12?

8. Why is Tony famous?

9. What happened to Yao following the events of Chapter 1?

10. What factors cause Frances to have a meltdown on the way to Tranquillum House?

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