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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 Mrs. Givings stop by and give Frank?
(a) A cup of sugar.
(b) Sedum.
(c) A card.
(d) Gossip about the neighbors.

2. Why did Maureen escape to New York City?
(a) To find a job.
(b) So she could experience "life."
(c) So she could make more money.
(d) To be with her husband.

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

4. Why does Earl come home crestfallen?
(a) The big promotion that he expected in New York has been shot down by a higher authority and he will remain on various field assignments until his retirement.
(b) He will have to move to New York.
(c) He had been fired.
(d) His boss is disappointed with his work.

5. Where does John Givings currently live?
(a) In Pendleton Penitentiary.
(b) The North Fork.
(c) At Greenacres, the state mental hospital.
(d) With his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank do when she starts to go into a long explanation?

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

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

4. How does Frank tell stories about himself?

5. Of what does Frank reassure April?

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