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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 much does Eileen tell Alice she earns in a year?

2. How does Eileen tell Simon he looks in Chapter 3?

3. What did Simon suffer from in his youth?

4. What do Felix and Alice do for the first time in Chapter 13?

5. What does Lola text Eileen that hurts her in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eileen describe her job to herself?

2. What do Eileen and Simon do in Chapter 7 that gets both of them excited?

3. Who does Eileen obsessively look up on social media, and why?

4. How does Felix's and Alice's night end in Chapter 1?

5. What does Eileen tell her mother Mary in Chapter 3 that upsets Mary greatly?

6. In Chapter 13, what does Alice discover about Felix that upsets her at first?

7. In Chapter 2, what is the setting for a type of epiphany Alice has that she tells Eileen about in her email?

8. Why does Alice tell Felix she has come to his hometown?

9. What is the background of Simon's and Eileen's relationship?

10. How do Felix and Alice initially meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What tensions arise when Eileen and Simon come to visit Alice for the first time? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How do Eileen's impressions of Simon's religious faith change over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How do the sections that are comprised of Alice's and Eileen's letters/emails affect the reader's understanding of each character? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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