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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 Bobbi accuse Frances of doing more of with Nick than with her in Chapter 19?

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

3. What does Melissa tell Frances about Nick in Chapter 15 that she struggles to understand the meaning of?

4. Why is everyone so stressed about the visitor coming the day before Frances and Bobbi leave Etables?

5. What does Melissa ask Frances in Chapter 15 about Nick that surprises Frances?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay discussing how Frances's decision not to tell Bobbi about her affair with Nick affects Frances's and Bobbi's friendship.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring the effect of Frances's mother pressuring her to have more contact and a better relationship with her father. How does Frances handle her mother's pressure, and how does it affect the rest of Frances's life?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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