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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. In Chapter 8, what was the temperature when Teresa left Los Angeles and flew to Switzerland?

2. What type of car did Bert's parents give him when he graduated from college?

3. Where did Holly go to college?

4. Where did Bert and Teresa go for their honeymoon?

5. In Chapter 6, what day of the week does the gardener come and tend the gardens at the house Leo rents for the summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Ernestine and what happened to her?

2. Where did The Cousins children live after Cal died?

3. In Chapter 6, what is Caroline doing?

4. How did Holly end up living in Switzerland?

5. In what way is Leo and Franny's relationship doomed even before the house guests in Chapter 6?

6. Why do Fix, Caroline, and Franny go to Teresa's house on Fix's birthday?

7. What is the car like that Holly drives to pick up her mother from the airport in Chapter 8?

8. In Chapter 5, how does Fode know that Albie is Jeannette's brother?

9. In Chapter 6, where does Leo rent a house for the summer, and what is the house like?

10. What children do Caroline and Franny have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Blame for the divorce is placed upon certain characters depending upon who is contemplating the divorce and how it occurred. Who does Fix blame for the divorce and why?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 4, readers discover who Franny is and what motivates her. How does the author develop Franny’s character—through implicit or explicit details—and how does the way that Franny is portrayed reveal her strengths, weaknesses, motivations, conflicts, and personality?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the years, the Keating and Cousins families have bonded and in some ways they are like an extended family. How has the divorce bonded the two families together, and in what ways are they one big extended family as the years pass?

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