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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 does Rhonda feel about the family's move to Vienna?

2. Shortly after arriving in Vienna, what do Frank and John find Susie and Franny doing?

3. Who reads to the children in the second Hotel New Hampshire?

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

5. Who ends up taking Sorrow on the plane?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Frank's decision to major in Economics a wise one?

2. Why does Franny announce that she's going to take on the role of parent in the family?

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

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

5. Why does "Screaming Annie" have the name she does?

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters of Franny and Susie, making sure to use specific quotations from the novel to support your paper.

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