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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frances tell Nick bothers her about their relationship in Chapter 14?
(a) She thinks he likes her more than she likes him.
(b) She thinks they do not argue enough.
(c) She thinks she is more enthusiastic about it than he is.
(d) She thinks he wants to break up with Melissa.

2. In Chapter 21, what does Frances tell Nick about that she was never able to tell Bobbi about?
(a) Her relationship with her mother.
(b) Her feelings about sex.
(c) Her feelings about her own writing.
(d) Her father's problems.

3. What article of Nick's clothing is Frances especially taken with in Chapter 21?
(a) His blue silk button-down shirt.
(b) His tartan trousers.
(c) His grey cashmere coat.
(d) His golf jacket.

4. Why does Bobbi move in with Frances in Chapter 20?
(a) She wants to keep an eye on Frances so Frances does not see Nick any more.
(b) She needs to get out of her house - and closer into town - because of her family tensions.
(c) She is being abused and needs a place to stay.
(d) She has been kicked out of the house by her sister, who she has been staying with.

5. What is Melissa so angry that Nick forgot to get at the store in Chapter 16?
(a) Bread.
(b) Lemons.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A new tablecloth.

6. What happens when Frances tries to withdraw cash from the ATM in Chapter 23?
(a) She is arrested for fraud.
(b) She is robbed right after she gets the money out of the ATM.
(c) She gets a message that she has insufficient funds.
(d) Her card gets eaten by the machine.

7. Who comes to visit Etables the day before Frances and Bobbi fly home?
(a) Philip.
(b) Valerie.
(c) Frances's mother.
(d) Mariane.

8. What upsets Frances's mother about the way she talks about her father?
(a) Frances has told her mother she hates her father.
(b) Frances's mother wishes Frances loved her as much as Frances loved her father.
(c) Frances has told her mother she never wants to see her father again.
(d) Frances is very stressed by her father and once told her mother she did not have to love him just because he is her father.

9. What television program does Nick appear on in 1992?
(a) A documentary about gifted children.
(b) The Mickey Mouse Club episodes.
(c) A geography quiz game for Irish children.
(d) A church special about communions.

10. What does one of the doctors tell Frances could be the cause of her pain?
(a) A miscarriage.
(b) Liver cancer.
(c) Gallbladder attack.
(d) Appendicitis.

11. What kind of dessert do Nick, Evelyn, and Frances buy in Chapter 16?
(a) Something expensive with a lot of glazed strawberries.
(b) A heavy cake with sweet icing.
(c) A fruit pudding with cream.
(d) Apple tart.

12. What does the first email Frances receives from Nick since she returned to Ireland from France say?
(a) He is sorry about how he acted on the phone when she called him late at night.
(b) He wants to break up with her.
(c) He told Melissa about their affair.
(d) He told Evelyn about their affair.

13. What does Frances's internship supervisor tell her when her time there ends?
(a) She should never come back there again.
(b) She is not cut out for publishing work.
(c) Her work was always good and she would have a decent reference for Frances.
(d) She needs to marry young so she will not have to support herself.

14. What does Nick suggest doing in Chapter 16 that prompts Bobbi to ask whether he has a death wish?
(a) Opening a bottle of wine.
(b) Leaving the house and skipping dinner with Valerie.
(c) Trying marijuana from a new drug dealer.
(d) Going for a swim in the ocean at night.

15. What author does Frances's Tinder date tell her he likes?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Wilde.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nick's family home as a child?

2. What does Frances say in Chapter 21 when Melissa says she should be disastrously unhappy at age 21?

3. What does Melissa tell Valerie about France's poetry in Chapter 17?

4. What does Frances start reading in Chapter 19?

5. Who does Bobbi call for Frances in Chapter 22 when Frances gets so sick?

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