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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Melissa ask Frances in Chapter 17 that shocks and shames her?
(a) Whether she is sleeping with Nick.
(b) Whether she is serious about poetry.
(c) Whether she is really who she says she is.
(d) Whether she ever really loved Bobbi.

2. What does Bobbi tell Nick, Evelyn and Frances when she comes out to meet them upon their return from the supermarket in Chapter 16?
(a) Tensions have been running high.
(b) Everything is under control.
(c) She wants to go home that minute.
(d) They will never complete all the tasks Melissa asks for in the time they have available.

3. What is wrong with Nick after Bobbi leaves his bedroom door in Chapter 17?
(a) He is angry that Frances is still friends with Bobbi.
(b) He is sad that Bobbi is leaving the following day.
(c) He seems distracted and worried that Bobbi will tell someone else about their affair.
(d) He is enraged that Bobbi would knock on his door that late.

4. What does Frances say to Nick in Chapter 22 that she feels seals her humiliation with him?
(a) That the problem is that she loves him and he does not love her.
(b) That she would do anything to keep him.
(c) That she will move to another country unless he marries her.
(d) That she will tell Melissa about them to ruin his life.

5. What is the name of the man Frances matches with on Tinder and goes on a date with in Chapter 21?
(a) James.
(b) Eoin.
(c) Desmond.
(d) Rossa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frances find when she visits her father's house in Chapter 19?

2. What does Melissa tell Valerie about France's poetry in Chapter 17?

3. What does Frances ask Nick to do in Chapter 20 when he gets home from France?

4. What television program does Nick appear on in 1992?

5. What compliment does Evelyn give to Nick in Chapter 21 at Melissa's book launch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Melissa ask Nick to do with Bobbi and Frances in the beginning of Chapter 13?

2. In Chapter 14, what does Bobbi do that prompts Nick to cry with laughter?

3. What do Nick and Frances talk about that is prompted by Frances trying on Nick's coat in Chapter 21?

4. What does Nick tell Frances he thinks about people who like Yeats in Chapter 22?

5. What does Frances do in Chapter 20 several times to try to make sense of her past communications with Bobbi?

6. What does Frances find when she visits her father's house in Chapter 19?

7. What does Bobbi do at the lake in Chapter 13?

8. How does Bobbi seem to feel that Frances's relationship with Nick is affecting her own relationship with Frances?

9. What shared experience does Frances feel a powerful bond with Nick over in Chapter 21?

10. What changes in Bobbi's and Frances's living situations in Chapter 20?

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