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

2. What does Frank finally notice when he tries to apologize to his wife?
(a) She is asleep.
(b) She has left the house.
(c) She is crying.
(d) She has taken a blanket and gone to sleep on the couch downstairs.

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

4. What dooms the performance?
(a) An out of tune pit orchestra.
(b) Poor singing.
(c) Bad acting.
(d) Lighting problems.

5. About what do the Wheelers and their guests talk?
(a) The weather, the neighborhood, and dinner.
(b) The failed play, politics, and their neighbors.
(c) Going out dancing, dinner, and what is on television.
(d) The Givings' son.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank respond when April did not consult him with her plans?

2. In a rage, what does April do?

3. What does Frank threaten to do?

4. What do the cast members do backstage during intermission?

5. What does the audience do during intermission?

(see the answer key)

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