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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 ask Nick to do in Chapter 20 when he gets home from France?

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

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

4. What does the first email Frances receives from Nick since she returned to Ireland from France say?

5. What kind of dessert do Nick, Evelyn, and Frances buy in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 21, what does Frances do at Melissa's book launch that makes Bobbi so angry?

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 16, what news throws the house in France into disarray?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Frances think of Melissa's and Nick's house and relationship when she first visits their house and meets the couple? How do Frances's impressions of both their house and their relationship change over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing why Frances decides to read the gospels in Chapter 19 and how her impression of the stories relates to what is happening in her life at that time.

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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