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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. What does Frances feel a particular connection to Nick over in Chapter 21?
(a) Nick says he will never forgive his parents for things from his youth, and Frances feels the same about her parents.
(b) Nick says he was abused as a child, and Frances said she was also abused.
(c) Nick says he hates his own laugh, and Frances has always hated her own laugh.
(d) When Nick says people find him cold and lacking in fun, Frances says people have always said that about her too.

2. What does Frances tell Nick about their affair in Chapter 14 that seems to surprise him?
(a) She will tell Melissa about their affair if he does not do it soon himself.
(b) What they are doing seems insanely risky.
(c) She expects that Nick will marry her one day.
(d) She is not happy about their affair and wants to end it.

3. In Chapter 14, Frances is reading a book by which author?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Robert Fisk.

4. What does Melissa ask Frances in Chapter 15 about Nick that surprises Frances?
(a) Whether Nick has been bothering her.
(b) If she is attracted to Melissa.
(c) Whether she has ever had a boyfriend.
(d) If she is really gay.

5. 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 she is more enthusiastic about it than he is.
(c) She thinks he wants to break up with Melissa.
(d) She thinks they do not argue enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bobbi tell Frances she thinks an affair between Frances and Nick is possible?

2. Why does Bobbi move in with Frances in Chapter 20?

3. What happens to Frances in Chapter 22 at the bus shelter at college?

4. What does Bobbi accuse Frances of doing more of with Nick than with her in Chapter 19?

5. What kind of insects kept flying in through the windows in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what does Bobbi do that prompts Nick to cry with laughter?

2. How does Bobbi seem to feel that Frances's relationship with Nick is affecting her own relationship with Frances?

3. In Chapter 15, what does Melissa ask Frances as they are both waiting to use the bathroom?

4. What does Frances find herself reading instead of her academic assignments in the beginning of Chapter 19?

5. In Chapter 16, what news throws the house in France into disarray?

6. What does Frances tell Nick in Chapter 22 that prompts him to tell her she is being very dramatic?

7. At the end of Chapter 15, what is Frances so upset about regarding her relationship with Nick?

8. In Chapter 13, what does Bobbi ask Melissa not to call her and Frances?

9. What does Bobbi tell Frances about Nick's childhood during their car journey in Chapter 13?

10. What changes in Bobbi's and Frances's living situations in Chapter 20?

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