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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. Whose idea is the New Year's party?

2. When was "The Hotel New Hampshire" published?

3. Who is Junior Jones?

4. What happens to the school's football team during their rival game?

5. Why do the workers have so much free time the first night the hotel opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Franny offer to Chip so he'll leave Frank alone (while he is beating him up)?

2. How does Rhonda proposition John for the first time?

3. How does Franny react to Frank coming out to her and John about being gay?

4. How does Win react to Freud's letter during the New Year's party?

5. Why doesn't Win go to Harvard?

6. How does "State O' Maine" die?

7. What does the school do in honor of Coach Bob's final season as coach?

8. How does the family handle Lilly's diagnosis of dwarfism?

9. Why would Coach Bob have refused to coach the expelled players had they been allowed to remain on the team?

10. How does Junior Jones help John get better at lifting weights?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the increasing tensions between the Berry children and the football players at Dairy. Does it seem surprising? What escalates it? Who is at fault? Could it have been quelled early in the novel? Is its progression and peak surprising?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Franny and John's choice of spouses. Use direct quotations and examples from the text in your essay.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Franny and Frank's relationship throughout "The Hotel New Hampshire." How is it functional? How is it dysfunctional? Is it loving? Why or why not?

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