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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 say when Nick asks her if she wants him to give her money in Chapter 21?

2. What does Frances ask Nick to do in Chapter 20 when he gets home from France?

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

4. What errand does Melissa send Nick, Frances and Bobbi on in Chapter 13?

5. What does Bobbi buy for Frances the fourth night of their trip after they walk into town as a group?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Frances tell Nick she is upset about in their relationship in Chapter 14, and how does he respond?

6. What does Bobbi do at the lake in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a significant age difference between Bobbi and Frances and Melissa and Nick, so much so that Frances's mother comments that it is strange that people so much older than Frances are interested in befriending her. How do you think the age difference between the two sets of friends affects their relationship? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does Frances feel that her parents' tumultuous and unhappy relationship affected both her childhood and adulthood? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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