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

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

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

4. What happens as Frank rides the elevator to the fifteenth floor?
(a) He become claustrophobic.
(b) He thinks about his wife.
(c) He ponders his life.
(d) His mind races back to his first trip to this building as a young boy with his father, Earl Wheeler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Frank Wheeler awaken?

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

3. With what is the conversation between Frank and Pollock juxtaposed?

4. Describe Helen's home.

5. How does the reader learn a lot of back story on the current situation between Frank and April?

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