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

2. Where is the lake Nick takes Bobbi and Frances to?
(a) The Finger Lakes.
(b) The Brittany Lakes.
(c) Chatelaudren.
(d) Lake Cuomo.

3. What does Nick ask Frances in Chapter 13 that surprises her?
(a) Whether she is poor.
(b) Whether she is seeing anyone.
(c) Whether she is really gay.
(d) Whether she is contemplating dropping out of school.

4. Why is everyone so stressed about the visitor coming the day before Frances and Bobbi leave Etables?
(a) The visitor is an alcoholic who always gets drunk and behaves terribly.
(b) The visitor always brings many rowdy friends with her.
(c) The visitor is extremely unsociable and awkward.
(d) There was a stressful incident with the same visitor the previous year.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bobbi do when she comes outside to calm Frances down in Chapter 17?

3. Why does Frances get so upset at Valerie in Chapter 17?

4. How does Nick react when Frances calls him from the hospital?

5. What happens when Frances tries to withdraw cash from the ATM in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Frances tell Nick about her father in Chapter 14?

3. In Chapter 14, why is Frances so grateful that Bobbi buys her an ice cream?

4. What does Melissa ask Nick to do with Bobbi and Frances in the beginning of Chapter 13?

5. What does Frances find when she visits her father's house in Chapter 19?

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

7. In Chapter 21, what does Frances do at Melissa's book launch that makes Bobbi so angry?

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

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

10. What does Frances do in Chapter 20 several times to try to make sense of her past communications with Bobbi?

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