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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 John predict Susie will go on to be someday?

2. What does Franny major in at the local university?

3. What makes it obvious that Miss Miscarriage is dead?

4. Where are Frank and Lilly while John and Franny are intimate with each other?

5. Who do the radicals decide will drive their car bomb since Miss Miscarriage is dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which characters begin to take in the Berry children more after their mother dies -- and why?

2. When does Win say he'll take the children back to the U.S., per their request?

3. How does John manage to get more money for Lilly's book release?

4. What does Miss Miscarriage plead with John to do before the radicals' plot moves forward?

5. Why does Franny announce that she's going to take on the role of parent in the family?

6. Why does John start to cry when he is getting drinks with Win before they confront the radicals?

7. What is the ultimate goal of the family's revenge plan on Chip?

8. How does Lilly feel after the successful publication of her first book?

9. How did Franny get her name?

10. How do the rescuers find the plane crash site so easily?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the increasing tensions between the Berry children and the football players at Dairy. Does it seem surprising? What escalates it? Who is at fault? Could it have been quelled early in the novel? Is its progression and peak surprising?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Franny and John's choice of spouses. Use direct quotations and examples from the text in your essay.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Franny and Frank's physical fight in "The First Hotel New Hampshire" reveals information about *three* characters that are present in the scene.

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