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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 the first email Frances receives from Nick since she returned to Ireland from France say?

2. What does Frances say to Nick in Chapter 22 that she feels seals her humiliation with him?

3. What does Melissa ask Frances in Chapter 17 that shocks and shames her?

4. Why does Frances get so upset at Valerie in Chapter 17?

5. What does Melissa tell Frances about Nick in Chapter 15 that she struggles to understand the meaning of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 16, what news throws the house in France into disarray?

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

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

5. What very personal information does Nick share with Frances in Chapter 14?

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

7. How does Frances's date with Rossa turn out at the end of Chapter 21?

8. At the end of Chapter 15, what is Frances so upset about regarding her relationship with Nick?

9. In Chapter 14, why is Frances so grateful that Bobbi buys her an ice cream?

10. What does Frances tell Nick in Chapter 22 that prompts him to tell her she is being very dramatic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Rooney's graphic descriptions of Frances's and Nick's sexual intimacy affect and inform the reader's understanding of their relationship? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

At what point in the novel does Frances seem to decide to commit to the idea of having an affair with Nick? Write an essay about the process Frances goes through to get to the place in which she first sleeps with Nick.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay discussing how Frances's decision not to tell Bobbi about her affair with Nick affects Frances's and Bobbi's friendship.

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