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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does no one want to do?
(a) Leave the theater.
(b) Hear April sing.
(c) See the performance end.
(d) Go back into the auditorium for the second half of the play.

2. When April tells Frank to leave her alone, what does he do?
(a) He leaves her alone.
(b) He tries to hold her.
(c) He sits silently.
(d) He retaliates with a tirade about how it is not his fault she never became a real actress and that he's tired of being made a scapegoat.

3. About what is the audience disgruntled?
(a) The heat.
(b) The bad performance.
(c) The poor lighting.
(d) The length of the performance.

4. What happens when the leading man becomes sick and unable to act?
(a) The stage manager takes his place.
(b) A friend takes his place.
(c) The director takes his place.
(d) The understudy takes his place.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank try to change the subject?

2. How is April Wheeler introduced?

3. Why does Frank suddenly become angry with his son, Michael?

4. What does Frank say has become a kind of national religion?

5. About what do the Wheelers and their guests talk?

(see the answer key)

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