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

2. Why are the prostitutes at the hotel in Vienna not a problem?
(a) Because prostitution is legal there.
(b) Because they'll be gone by the time the Berrys arrive.
(c) Because they bring in good guests for the hotel.
(d) Because no one knows they are prostitutes.

3. Why does Freud fear calling the authorities about the radicals' plot?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) He agrees with the political statement they want to make.
(c) He agrees with what they want to do.
(d) He thinks they will be guilty by association.

4. Who does John end up marrying?
(a) Annie.
(b) Susie.
(c) Franny.
(d) Rhonda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the Berry family wants to return to Dairy, New Hampshire after Vienna?

2. Why does Chip want to contact Franny?

3. What does Franny major in at the local university?

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

5. How does Franny let John know that the time has come for them to sleep together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which characters begin to take in the Berry children more after their mother dies -- and why?

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

3. What does Miss Miscarriage plead with John to do before the radicals' plot moves forward?

4. How does Lilly feel after the successful publication of her first book?

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

6. Why does Lilly say she wished she had stayed with Fritz back at the original Hotel New Hampshire?

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

8. When does Win say he'll take the children back to the U.S., per their request?

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

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

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