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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 whom does Frank remember first having lunch?
(a) Mr. Pollack, his father's friend.
(b) His wife, before they were married.
(c) His father, Earl Wheeler.
(d) Earl Wheeler's boss, Oat Fields.

2. What scheduling snafu takes place?
(a) They book an evening with both the Campbells and the Givings.
(b) They are booked for one night with the Campbells and another night with the Givings.
(c) They have no plans for the evening.
(d) They will have to leave for France later.

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

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. How do the Wheelers become more and more like the shallow suburbanites they loathe?
(a) As they spend less and less time in New York City.
(b) As they become more involved in community activities.
(c) As they progress further and further with their plans to leave the country.
(d) As they spend more and more time with their suburbanite friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Earl come home crestfallen?

2. What of Frank's does Pollock praise?

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

4. What does Frank have Maureen Grube do?

5. What does Frank also seem better able to do at the office?

(see the answer key)

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