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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Miss Miscarriage confess is the radicals' plan?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) To capture John's family.
(c) To hold John's family hostage.
(d) To blow up the opera house.

5. Who insists that the family learn about Vienna before they move there?
(a) Mary.
(b) Win.
(c) Frank.
(d) Franny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Freud fear calling the authorities about the radicals' plot?

2. What hotel does the family stay in when they return to the United States after Vienna?

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

4. Under what conditions will the owner sell the third hotel that Win wants to buy?

5. What is Egg's room like in the Vienna hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank tell John about what he remembers about his life in Vienna?

2. How do the rescuers find the plane crash site so easily?

3. Why is Frank's decision to major in Economics a wise one?

4. What comments do Lilly and Susie make about the sexual tension between Franny and John before they sleep together?

5. How does the revenge scene on Chip finally conclude?

6. Why is John and Frank's attorney amused at their interview with the owner of the hotel Win wants to buy?

7. What advice does Franny give her siblings about living in Vienna when they first arrive?

8. Why do Susie and John end up raising Franny and Junior's baby?

9. Why does Franny announce that she's going to take on the role of parent in the family?

10. Who does John lie to his father about their third hotel being up and running?

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