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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the audience also do during intermission?
(a) Go backstage to congratulate the actors.
(b) Wipe perspiration from their hands onto their clothing.
(c) Buy food.
(d) Donate money to the community theater.

2. What happens to April Wheeler's acting during the second act?
(a) It descends to the level of the other cast members, or worse.
(b) It is just has atrocious as it was in the first act.
(c) It continues to be just as good as it was at the beginning of the play.
(d) It greatly improves.

3. What does Frank do when she starts to go into a long explanation?
(a) He listens to what she has to say.
(b) He drags her into the bedroom.
(c) He breaks down and admits to his poor behavior.
(d) He walks out of the room.

4. At an alcohol-fueled lunch, what does Maureen Grube tell Frank?
(a) Her life story.
(b) She likes him.
(c) She loves her job.
(d) She is not interested in him.

5. What do the cast members do backstage during intermission?
(a) They decide to cancel the second act.
(b) They gush about how well the performance is going.
(c) They rest before the second act.
(d) They pace, wishing only to finish the second act and go home as fast as possible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what does Frank Wheeler catch a glimpse as April acts out her part onstage?

3. For what does April apologize again?

4. What does Frank say suburbanites leave in a fog of denial?

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?

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