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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 does Frank Wheeler awaken?
(a) A refreshed feeling.
(b) Love for his wife.
(c) A debilitating hangover.
(d) A deep depression.

2. What is making a mechanical screeching sound from the backyard?
(a) His children's toys.
(b) The car.
(c) The lawnmower.
(d) A chainsaw.

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

4. What has Helen's son's psychiatrist approved?
(a) Him to move in with his parents.
(b) Him to go on a short vacation.
(c) Him to visit his parents' home.
(d) Him to socialize outside the Givings' home.

5. Why does Earl come home crestfallen?
(a) He had been fired.
(b) His boss is disappointed with his work.
(c) He will have to move to New York.
(d) The big promotion that he expected in New York has been shot down by a higher authority and he will remain on various field assignments until his retirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank fend off?

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

3. What had Frank once boasted to April years earlier?

4. How do both April and Frank feel as children?

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

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