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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank say suburbanites leave in a fog of denial?
(a) How mundane life is in the suburbs.
(b) Their ignorance.
(c) How much they detest their lives.
(d) The important issues of the world.

2. What does Frank fend off?
(a) His boss.
(b) Invitations from other co-workers to join them for lunch.
(c) Repeated calls from his wife.
(d) Maureen's flirtatious behavior.

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

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

5. Of what is the drab, ugly architecture of the Knox Building in New York City where Frank Wheeler works in sales promotion is an emblem?
(a) The city of New York.
(b) The drab, dull routines that workers inside go through daily.
(c) The Frank's view of his life and work.
(d) The drab, dull routine of all workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Frank and April begin doing to each other?

2. What does Frank threaten to do?

3. To what does Frank look forward?

4. Who can Frank hardly remember without the aid of a photograph?

5. What does Frank use to create a walkway in the front of the house?

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