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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. Where does the Berry family live while waiting for the hotel to be renovated?

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

3. What day does the Berry family move into their first Hotel New Hampshire?

4. Who is Dairy's traditional football rival?

5. How do the Dairy football players stop Franny and John as they try to find help on Halloween night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Franny react when she is let go from the net on Halloween night?

2. Why is John so nervous about having sex with Sabrina?

3. What does Coach Bob accuse Win of as they discuss opening up a hotel?

4. How do Win and Mary handle all the people -- including their children -- having sex in their hotel?

5. How does the fight between Franny and Frank end?

6. What do the Berry children insist about the story being told at the beginning of the novel?

7. Why are Win and Mary looking forward to their summer jobs so much when they meet?

8. Why does John whisper during sex after his first encounter with Rhonda?

9. How does Coach Bob die?

10. What does Franny do several times a day after being attacked on Halloween night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast two minor guests at the second Hotel New Hampshire, making sure to discuss how, even as minor characters, they contribute to the novel and its larger theme(s).

Essay Topic 2

Franny never admits to being raped on Halloween night -- just being "beaten up." Analyze 1) what this shows the reader about her character, 2) why her family chooses to adopt this same language when speaking about what happens, and 3) what the reader is supposed to take away from the entire incident.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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