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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 term Masha uses to describe the transformative therapy intended for the guests?

2. Which of Frances's books does Zoe find inside Tranquillum House?

3. What is installed throughout the Tranquillum House property?

4. How did the negative review describe Frances's work?

5. What is the name of the massage therapist at Tranquillum House?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Frances and Tony are at the pool together?

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

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

4. Who is Alain and what does he tell Frances? How does she react?

5. Who is Paul Drabble and what does the reader learn about him in Chapter 8?

6. How do Frances and Zoe bond outside the meditation studio?

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

8. Why is Ben unhappy with Jessica?

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

10. What does the reader learn about Tony in Chapter 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

An epigraph is a short quotation at the beginning of a book. The epigraph to this novel is a quote from Rumi: “You suppose that you are in trouble but you are the cure. You suppose that you are the lock in the door but you are the key that opens it.” How does the epigraph reflect the lives of the characters? How does the epigraph reflect the novel’s themes?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of Ben’s Lamborghini as it pertains to the lives of Ben and Jessica.

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