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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. Once the floor is as empty as it will get, Frank steps into Ms. Grube's office and does what?
(a) Apologizes to her.
(b) Tells her to go home.
(c) Sleeps with her.
(d) Relieves her of her duties and asks her to lunch.

2. With what is April energized?
(a) Tasks such as getting passports and looking into overseas employment.
(b) Her work as a housewife.
(c) Taking care of her children.
(d) Planning gatherings for her friends.

3. For what do Frank and April thank each other?
(a) They are not like their neighbors.
(b) The respect they now feel.
(c) The love they feel for each other.
(d) The decision to move to Paris.

4. What of Frank's does Pollock praise?
(a) His dedication.
(b) His talent.
(c) His looks.
(d) His sales brochure.

5. Who can Frank hardly remember without the aid of a photograph?
(a) His childhood.
(b) His siblings.
(c) His parents' faces.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank fantasize about Maureen Grube?

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

3. How does sixty-seven-year-old Howard Givings look and act?

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

5. With the decision to move to Paris, what seem to return to the marriage of Frank and April Wheeler?

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