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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. How long does the Berry family live in Vienna?

2. What does John predict Susie will go on to be someday?

3. What dream does John have about his mother before they depart for Vienna?

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

5. How did Susie get her horrible scars?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when John sees Chip on the streets of New York City?

2. What is the ultimate goal of the family's revenge plan on Chip?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Franny get her name?

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

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 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 3

"The Hotel New Hampshire" has quite a few characters who are prostitutes. Choose two prostitute characters and discuss 1) why Irving puts them in the novel, and 2) at least 3 things Irving is able to do with (or through) them that he would not be able to do with a more traditional character.

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