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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 were the results of the tests Tony's doctor ran on him?
2. What does Zoe tell Frances after reading Nathaniel's Kiss?
3. As Frances remembers key events from the retreat in Chapter 55, she tells the group to do what?
4. What does Zoe initially suggest about how to escape the meditation studio?
5. When Delilah leaves Tranquillum House, where does she go?
Short Essay Questions
1. What secrets do Heather and Zoe share during the psychedelic therapy? How does Napoleon feel about learning their secrets?
2. How is the object discovered in the rafters, and how do the guests retrieve it?
3. What prompts the guests to experience a "dark night of the soul"? What does Tony learn during this time?
4. Who visits Zoe while she is undergoing the psychedelic therapy? What happens?
5. What does Carmel experience during the psychedelic therapy? What does she learn about herself?
6. What does Delilah remember about Masha during their days in the corporate world?
7. What does Frances experience during the psychedelic therapy? What does she learn about herself?
8. What is the object in the rafters? What is its meaning, according to Masha?
9. How is Masha "defeated" in Chapter 73?
10. What game does Masha want the guests to play? What must they do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What might have happened to Frances had she never attended the retreat at Tranquillum House? Argue for an alternative reality based on what the reader knows of her history, actions, and beliefs.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring how Yao’s relationship with Masha changes over the course of the novel.
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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