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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the audience also do during intermission?
(a) Donate money to the community theater.
(b) Wipe perspiration from their hands onto their clothing.
(c) Go backstage to congratulate the actors.
(d) Buy food.

2. What does Frank say has become a kind of national religion?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

3. When did Frank and April's love affair in a seedy shack near Greenwich Village turn serious?
(a) She became sick.
(b) He lost his job.
(c) They got married.
(d) She got pregnant.

4. What does Frank do when she starts to go into a long explanation?
(a) He breaks down and admits to his poor behavior.
(b) He walks out of the room.
(c) He listens to what she has to say.
(d) He drags her into the bedroom.

5. When April tells Frank to leave her alone, what does he do?
(a) He tries to hold her.
(b) He retaliates with a tirade about how it is not his fault she never became a real actress and that he's tired of being made a scapegoat.
(c) He sits silently.
(d) He leaves her alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Maureen marry at age eighteen?

2. What does the audience do during intermission?

3. What does Frank fantasize about Maureen Grube?

4. After telling his friend of his plans, on what does Ordway quiz Frank?

5. In a rage, what does April do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the decision to move to Paris affect the Wheelers?

2. What does the Knox Building represent?

3. What does Helen do, while she and her husband sip their tea?

4. What happens when Frank tries to apologize to his wife?

5. How did April want to handle the situation she and Frank had been in early in their relationship?

6. About what do the Wheelers and their guests discuss?

7. What does Frank tell Maureen about himself?

8. What happens after Frank's surprise birthday party?

9. How does the reader learn the back story between Frank and April?

10. Why does Mrs. Givings show up? How does Frank react to this?

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