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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. Why does Frank get a cab for himself and Maureen to take to a favorite restaurant?
(a) He is further trying to conceal his actions from his co-workers.
(b) To impress her.
(c) It is raining.
(d) So they do not have to walk.

2. What happens as Frank rides the elevator to the fifteenth floor?
(a) His mind races back to his first trip to this building as a young boy with his father, Earl Wheeler.
(b) He become claustrophobic.
(c) He thinks about his wife.
(d) He ponders his life.

3. What does Frank envision April doing as he gives a great burst of love and approval?
(a) Laughing off the disastrous production in a round of kisses and compliments.
(b) Pushing him away.
(c) Getting upset with him.
(d) Ignoring him.

4. How do both April and Frank feel as children?
(a) Shy.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Spoiled.
(d) Happy.

5. What kind of husband does April not want?
(a) One who works himself into an early grave at a job he hates for a house and life in suburbia that means nothing to them.
(b) One who cannot think for himself.
(c) One who is poor.
(d) One who is not willing to do as she asks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank also seem better able to do at the office?

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

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

4. What does Frank fend off?

5. Why does Earl come home crestfallen?

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