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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. What does Frank major in at the local university?

2. Why does Chip want to contact Franny?

3. Why are the prostitutes at the hotel in Vienna not a problem?

4. How often do non-regular guests come into the hotel?

5. Who is Fritz?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John manage to get more money for Lilly's book release?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. As his family is discussing the radicals' plot, why does John say he and his family are not good foreigners?

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

10. Why does Win want a dog?

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

Choose two characters' first sexual encounters and analyze 1) what the encounter shows the reader about that character, and 2) how that encounter has an impact on each character's attitude(s) about sex during the rest of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Franny and Frank's physical fight in "The First Hotel New Hampshire" reveals information about *three* characters that are present in the scene.

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