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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 is the name of Tony's dog, who recently died?

2. What does Lars do for a living?

3. Where does Frances live?

4. While watching Napoleon in Chapter 10, Heather is overcome by a feeling of what?

5. As she drives to Tranquillum House, Frances begins experiencing pain where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors cause Frances to have a meltdown on the way to Tranquillum House?

2. What does the reader learn about Carmel's background in Chapter 21?

3. What information does Masha learn about Carmel in Chapter 24?

4. Once alone in her room for the first time, what does Frances discover?

5. What happened to Yao following the events of Chapter 1?

6. What shocking change happened to Jessica and Ben prior to their coming on the retreat? How did the change affect them?

7. Who is Ray, and what does he want? How does Lars feel about this desire?

8. What about the Marconi family confuses the director of Tranquillum House in Chapter 9?

9. Masha keeps receiving emails from which person? How does she respond?

10. Why is Ben unhappy with Jessica?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Masha’s “new protocol”? What does she think of it, and what do Yao and Delilah think about it? What are the benefits and drawbacks to this protocol, as seen in the guests? Ultimately, is this protocol beneficial or harmful?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of multiple characters affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one of their perspectives?

Essay Topic 3

Morality (or the lack thereof) plays a big role in the lives of the main characters. Discuss three characters who act according to their own internal sense of morality. Are their actions moral in the eyes of the majority? What are the consequences of their moral (or not-so-moral) behavior?

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