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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 to Nick when she sees him for the first time when he gets back from France?

2. Where does Marianne, Frances's friend, return from in Chapter 20?

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

4. What happens to Frances in Chapter 22 at the bus shelter at college?

5. What does Frances say in Chapter 21 when Melissa says she should be disastrously unhappy at age 21?

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 information does Bobbi accidentally reveal to Phillip in Chapter 22?

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 13, what does Bobbi ask Melissa not to call her and Frances?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing Frances's reaction to Bobbi's revelation about her affair with Nick in front of Phillip in Chapter 22. How does Frances take it when Phillip chastises her for what she has done with Nick?

Essay Topic 3

What purposes does Frances's writing serve for her, in financial, emotional and psychological terms? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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