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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 does Carmel learn during her psychedelic therapy?
2. In Chapter 67, Masha becomes angry when she sees a guest wearing what object?
3. After he stopped playing professionally, what business did Tony start?
4. Delilah has saved enough money to do what?
5. Masha becomes angry when the first guest to give a defense presentation in Chapter 67 does not have what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the object discovered in the rafters, and how do the guests retrieve it?
2. What does Ben realize about his marriage following the psychedelic therapy?
3. What has Zoe read during the retreat? What does she tell Frances about it? How does she really feel?
4. What does Carmel tell Frances about her life before children in Chapter 60?
5. What game does Masha want the guests to play? What must they do?
6. How does Masha finally lose all control over Yao?
7. What is Delilah's opinion of the "new protocol" in Chapter 51? What does she do?
8. How do the guests react to Masha drugging them?
9. What does Frances experience during the psychedelic therapy? What does she learn about herself?
10. What happens when the defense presentations begin in Chapter 67? Whose presentation calms Masha?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze how the novel’s setting influences both the characters and the novel’s plot.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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