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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. How does Otto feel about Francis?

2. Who did Sophie compare her husband to after the party?

3. Why do the Bentwoods not want to live in the Holsteins' neighborhood?

4. What do the Bentwoods do simultaneously at the beginning of the book?

5. What is Alice's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Francis and Sophie communicate during their affair?

2. What is a loving bleeder?

3. Why did the affair with Francis end?

4. Why did Sophie feel so rushed to get home while she is out alone with Charlie?

5. What does Charlie say when Sophie tells him about the cat bite?

6. What does Sophie say about Francis as she falls asleep?

7. What happens to the Bentwoods' house when they return from the party?

8. How does Sophie feel when she and Francis first touch?

9. Why does Sophie finally confess to her husband about the bite from the cat? What is his reaction?

10. What does Sophie say had changed about her with age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happened at the hospital? How does this change the dynamic of the relationship between Sophie and her husband?

Essay Topic 2

What caused the end of the business relationship between Charlie and Otto? How does this severed relationship affect their spouses?

Essay Topic 3

Courage and fear are two attributes that are seen a number of times in this book. Where do they appear? How does the presence of these feelings change the characters who are involved in those scenes?

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