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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is making a mechanical screeching sound from the backyard?
(a) The car.
(b) A chainsaw.
(c) His children's toys.
(d) The lawnmower.

2. How does Frank feel about April as he makes his way backstage after the curtain comes down?
(a) Annoyed by her.
(b) Shy and nervous.
(c) He desires her.
(d) Worried.

3. Why does Frank get a cab for himself and Maureen to take to a favorite restaurant?
(a) It is raining.
(b) So they do not have to walk.
(c) He is further trying to conceal his actions from his co-workers.
(d) To impress her.

4. What does Frank threaten to do?
(a) Get a divorce.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Hit her with his closed fist.
(d) Leave her.

5. What does Frank see as the beginning of his father's decline in health, as well as his mother's?
(a) The loss of his job.
(b) The disappointment of not receiving the big promotion.
(c) His move to New York.
(d) The dislike he feels towards the Knox Machine Company.

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. Why does Frank suddenly become angry with his son, Michael?

4. What do Frank and April begin doing to each other?

5. What does Frank say suburbanites leave in a fog of denial?

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