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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hotel does the family stay in when they return to the United States after Vienna?
(a) The Stanhope.
(b) The Goldwater Hotel.
(c) A hotel the reader never learns the name of.
(d) The Ritz.

2. What is Miss Miscarriage doing the night John first kisses her?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Reading to him.
(d) Cleaning.

3. Who does the family tell Chip will rape him?
(a) The bear.
(b) Franny.
(c) Frank.
(d) John.

4. What makes it obvious that Miss Miscarriage is dead?
(a) The smell outside of her apartment.
(b) The blood people can see through the window.
(c) The suicide note she's taped to her door.
(d) The fact that she's not moving.

5. What makes John study German harder?
(a) He is naturally very good at it.
(b) He wants to be able to talk to girls.
(c) He is told he must go to school in Vienna.
(d) He doesn't want to depend on Frank.

6. What kind of dog does Win say he wants for Christmas?
(a) A dog that can predict earthquakes.
(b) A seeing-eye dog.
(c) A rescue dog.
(d) A performing dog.

7. What does "Wrench" do?
(a) Work on a car that never seems driveable.
(b) Graffiti wrenches all over the hotel all the time.
(c) Handle all the repair work in the second Hotel New Hampshire.
(d) Always seem to break everything he touches.

8. How many prostitutes does John sleep with the night before the radicals execute their plot?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

9. For how long are Franny and John intimate?
(a) Many hours.
(b) There weren't intimate at all.
(c) Just a few minutes, and they both hated it.
(d) Not long at all, because they are interrupted.

10. How are the new guests described at the new Hotel New Hampshire?
(a) "Timid."
(b) "Rich."
(c) "Dumb."
(d) "Annoying."

11. Where are Frank and Lilly while John and Franny are intimate with each other?
(a) At a book signing.
(b) At a literary lunch.
(c) On vacation.
(d) Trapped in the hotel elevator.

12. How does Lilly kill herself?
(a) She takes too many pills.
(b) She jumps out the window.
(c) She hangs herself.
(d) She throws herself off of a cliff.

13. Shortly after arriving in Vienna, what do Frank and John find Susie and Franny doing?
(a) Stealing from the hotel.
(b) Being sexual with each other.
(c) Hanging out with the prostitutes -- which Win has forbidden.
(d) Sneaking out at night to go to bars.

14. What is the name of the movie made about Lily's first book?
(a) "Small Things."
(b) "Small Plates."
(c) "Big Mind in a Small Body."
(d) "Trying to Grow."

15. What is Miss Miscarriage's role to be in the radicals' plan?
(a) Call the police about the hostage situation.
(b) Drive the car with the bomb.
(c) Seduce John so they can capture him.
(d) Be a spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Lilly so interested in the circus that is coming to the (original) Hotel New Hampshire for the summer?

2. Who drives to see the property of the hotel Win wants to buy after he has lived in New York for a while?

3. How many radicals does Franny sleep with the night before the radicals execute their plot?

4. How did Susie get her horrible scars?

5. What does Susie end up doing for a living?

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