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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 are Frank and Lilly while John and Franny are intimate with each other?

2. What do Franny and John do after they finish sleeping with each other?

3. What will set off the radicals' car bomb?

4. Who insists that the family learn about Vienna before they move there?

5. What has happened to the candy store next door to the hotel in Vienna?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Franny get her name?

5. Why does John start to cry when he is getting drinks with Win before they confront the radicals?

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

7. How did Egg get his name?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe at least 4 things Irving introduces in "The Bear Called State O' Maine" about the Berry family that become significant by the end of the novel. Make sure to address how and why these 4 things are significant later.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze what ultimately happens to Sorrow and what larger themes his death -- and his stuffing and preservation -- address in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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