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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank fend off?
(a) His boss.
(b) Maureen's flirtatious behavior.
(c) Repeated calls from his wife.
(d) Invitations from other co-workers to join them for lunch.

2. Where was Helen formerly a stenographer?
(a) NBC.
(b) Knox Machine Company.
(c) A machinery plant.
(d) Macy's.

3. How does sixty-seven-year-old Howard Givings look and act?
(a) Very odd.
(b) Younger than his years.
(c) His age.
(d) Older than his years.

4. With what is the conversation between Frank and Pollock juxtaposed?
(a) Frank's thoughts about his career in Europe.
(b) His account that he later gives to April and her reactions.
(c) Frank's thoughts about Pollock.
(d) Frank's memories of his father.

5. With whom does Frank remember first having lunch?
(a) His father, Earl Wheeler.
(b) Mr. Pollack, his father's friend.
(c) Earl Wheeler's boss, Oat Fields.
(d) His wife, before they were married.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank respond when April did not consult him with her plans?

2. What happens as Frank rides the elevator to the fifteenth floor?

3. What does Mrs. Givings stop by and give Frank?

4. Who can Frank hardly remember without the aid of a photograph?

5. How do the Wheelers become more and more like the shallow suburbanites they loathe?

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