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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. Masha becomes angry when the first guest to give a defense presentation in Chapter 67 does not have what?

2. While Yao is sedated and dreaming, who tells him to wake up?

3. What were the results of the tests Tony's doctor ran on him?

4. How did Zach once describe an angry Heather?

5. As the psychedelic therapy continues, Yao is filled with an impulse to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carmel tell Frances about her life before children in Chapter 60?

2. What does Ben realize about his marriage following the psychedelic therapy?

3. Who visits Zoe while she is undergoing the psychedelic therapy? What happens?

4. What does Tony experience during the psychedelic therapy?

5. How does Masha finally lose all control over Yao?

6. What secrets do Heather and Zoe share during the psychedelic therapy? How does Napoleon feel about learning their secrets?

7. What does the Marconi family experience during the psychedelic therapy? What does Masha advise Heather?

8. What is the object in the rafters? What is its meaning, according to Masha?

9. According to Tony's discussion with Frances in Chapter 53, what were the results of the tests Tony's doctor ran on him? What effect did they have on Tony?

10. What plans had Masha had for herself following the success of her new protocol?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What might have happened to Frances had she never attended the retreat at Tranquillum House? Argue for an alternative reality based on what the reader knows of her history, actions, and beliefs.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay defining love from Frances’s perspective. What is love, according to Frances? How does her choice of career reflect these values?

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