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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 is the name of the massage therapist at Tranquillum House?

2. As Frances enters the meditation studio in Chapter 11, she is shocked to find whom?

3. What kind of car does Ben drive?

4. Tranquillum House opened how many years ago?

5. What is the name of Yao's paramedic supervisor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Tony famous?

2. Frances is concerned to see what happen during their morning hike in Chapter 17?

3. Masha keeps receiving emails from which person? How does she respond?

4. What information does Masha learn about Carmel in Chapter 24?

5. Who is Alain and what does he tell Frances? How does she react?

6. What about the Marconi family confuses the director of Tranquillum House in Chapter 9?

7. What does the reader learn about Carmel's background in Chapter 21?

8. What does the reader learn about Tony in Chapter 18?

9. What do Masha and Frances have in common, as Frances discovers in Chapter 23?

10. What is the noble silence, and how do Ben and Jessica's feelings about it differ in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Morality (or the lack thereof) plays a big role in the lives of the main characters. Discuss three characters who act according to their own internal sense of morality. Are their actions moral in the eyes of the majority? What are the consequences of their moral (or not-so-moral) behavior?

Essay Topic 2

Helen Keller once wrote, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Explain how the characters of Frances and Masha illustrate Keller’s words.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of multiple characters affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one of their perspectives?

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