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

2. Who calls Frances as the group walks into town the fourth night she is in France?

3. In Chapter 21, what does Frances tell Nick about that she was never able to tell Bobbi about?

4. Why does Bobbi get so angry at Frances in Chapter 21?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Nick and Frances talk about that is prompted by Frances trying on Nick's coat in Chapter 21?

2. What does Nick tell Frances he thinks about people who like Yeats in Chapter 22?

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

4. What shared experience does Frances feel a powerful bond with Nick over in Chapter 21?

5. What very personal information does Nick share with Frances in Chapter 14?

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

7. How does Frances's date with Rossa turn out at the end of Chapter 21?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Frances's pelvic pain and medical problems in Chapter 18, coupled with the possibility that she may have experienced a miscarriage, change her relationship with and opinion of Nick? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the novel, Rooney leads the leader to believe that Frances and Nick may be resuming or rekindling their relationship after having broken it off for some time. Write an essay analyzing Rooney's choice to leave the question of Frances's and Nick's relationship status ambiguous at the novel's end.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Melissa's reaction when Nick informs her of his affair with Frances. What does the email she writes to Frances reveal about Melissa's personality?

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