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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 admit to himself, through the haze of his hangover?
(a) That he never really loved April.
(b) That he never really wanted to marry April.
(c) That he never really wanted to leave the city.
(d) That he never really wanted children either.

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

3. What had Frank once boasted to April years earlier?
(a) That he had lived in France for many years.
(b) That he could speak fluent French from his time there after the war.
(c) That he could speak both French and Spanish.
(d) That he had worked in Paris.

4. What does Pollock realize about Earl Wheeler?
(a) He was more talented than his son.
(b) He has worked his entire career in field offices in Pennsylvania while nurturing hopes of a transfer to the home office in New York.
(c) He should have been promoted and brought to New York.
(d) He is the reason why the Knox Machine Company has Frank as an employee.

5. Why does Frank suddenly become angry with his son, Michael?
(a) Michael is asking too many questions.
(b) Michael is misbehaving.
(c) Michael has lied to him.
(d) The shovel comes close to his son's small foot.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Frank begin a subtle campaign to rid April of the notion he had put in her head?

3. When did Frank and April's love affair in a seedy shack near Greenwich Village turn serious?

4. What does Frank fantasize about Maureen Grube?

5. Why does Frank get a cab for himself and Maureen to take to a favorite restaurant?

(see the answer key)

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