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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. About whom is April's flashback?

2. What does April do when Frank approaches and touches her?

3. Over what statement do Frank and April still fight?

4. What haunts Helen Givings?

5. After the Givings leave, what does Frank Wheeler do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Wheelers figure about? How does Frank respond to this information?

2. How does John act around the Wheelers?

3. How does Frank act, once the Givings leave?

4. What reactions do the Wheelers receive when they announce they have decided not to move to France?

5. What do the Campbells and Wheelers do when they are bored with each other's company?

6. How does April act as John leaves for work?

7. How do the characters know something happened to April?

8. What does Milly recount about the final resolution of the Wheeler family?

9. What does April repeatedly ask Frank? What does she wonder about Frank?

10. What are Frank's concerns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Another theme has to do with the struggle between one's desires and one's responsibilities.

Part 1) How is this thematic?

Part 2) How do these characters struggle with this theme? Which do they often choose, their desires or their responsibilities?

Part 3) How does this theme reflect real life? What do the actions of the characters, in regards to this theme, say about humanity? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Both Frank and April become engaged in affairs.

Part 1) Describe these affairs.

Part 2) Why do they take place? What do these affairs reveal about both Frank and April?

Part 3) How do they treat those with which they are in an affair? Why do they treat them this way?

Part 4) How do these affairs affect their relationships?

Essay Topic 3

The author quickly reveals the flaws in the various characters.

Part 1) How are these characters first perceived? How are their flaws soon revealed?

Part 2) What is the purpose of the revelation?

Part 3) How do these flaws give the reader a sense of what is to come?

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