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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. Why does Melissa not like the playwright who wrote the play Nick appears in in Chapter 4?

2. How does Nick find out about Melissa's affairs?

3. How old is Nick?

4. Who else is at the house Melissa and Nick are staying at in France?

5. Why does Bobbi want to stay the night with Frances at her apartment in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what are the circumstances that lead to Frances going to Nick's house when Melissa is away for work in London?

2. Why does Frances avoid red wine?

3. In Chapter 3, what prompts Bobbi to observe to Frances that Frances suffers?

4. What does Bobbi tell Frances about her first impression of Melissa?

5. How do Frances and Bobbi first meet?

6. What does Nick tell Frances in Chapter 9 when she says she does not want to wreck his marriage by having an affair?

7. What are Bobbi and Frances doing when they first meet Melissa?

8. In Chapter 8, what does Nick say in his email to Frances after their first kiss?

9. What does Frances think about Melissa's and Nick's relationship after the first dinner she and Bobbi are invited to in their house?

10. In Chapter 4, What does Frances think of the play she sees Nick perform in, and of Nick's performance itself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bobbi and Frances have very different feelings and impressions of Melissa after they first meet her. Write an essay comparing and contrasting Bobbi's and Frances's feelings towards Melissa in the beginning of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

At what point in the novel does Frances seem to decide to commit to the idea of having an affair with Nick? Write an essay about the process Frances goes through to get to the place in which she first sleeps with Nick.

Essay Topic 3

Sally Rooney makes an unusual choice in writing a book with so much dialogue and no quotation marks signaling the dialogue. Write an essay analyzing Rooney's stylistic and structural choices in this novel regarding dialogue.

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