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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. According to Carmel, before she became a mother she worked in what field?

2. What does Zoe tell Frances after reading Nathaniel's Kiss?

3. After speaking with Zoe in Chapter 49, what does Ben realize about his marriage?

4. At the end of his psychedelic vision, what does Tony hear?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Zoe read during the retreat? What does she tell Frances about it? How does she really feel?

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

3. How has Napoleon changed following the psychedelic therapy?

4. How do the guests react to Masha drugging them?

5. What is Delilah's opinion of the "new protocol" in Chapter 51? What does she do?

6. How is Masha "defeated" in Chapter 73?

7. What does Frances experience during the psychedelic therapy? What does she learn about herself?

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

9. What does Frances learn upon waking from the psychedelic therapy?

10. What does Delilah remember about Masha during their days in the corporate world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Frances finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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