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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does April respond to Frank?
(a) She cries as he drives away.
(b) She shrugs him off coldly.
(c) She apologizes for their fight.
(d) She begs him to stay.

2. How do the Wheelers drive home?
(a) Crying.
(b) Apologizing.
(c) In silence.
(d) Yelling.

3. What does Helen recall about April?
(a) How eager she seemed to discuss John's mental illness.
(b) How nervous she seemed about inviting John for a visit.
(c) How difficult it was talking to her about her son.
(d) How open and inviting she had been regarding Helen's son's visit.

4. At lunch with his co-worker Jack Ordway, what does Frank begin to realize?
(a) He really enjoys his job.
(b) A lot of the business plans and meetings in which he participates concern future events that he will not be around for.
(c) He does not want to move to Paris.
(d) He will miss these meetings and lunch outings when he is in Paris.

5. How does the reader learn a lot of back story on the current situation between Frank and April?
(a) Frank's flashback.
(b) A letter from April.
(c) April's flashback.
(d) Frank's argument with April.

6. Who can Frank hardly remember without the aid of a photograph?
(a) His wife.
(b) His parents' faces.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His siblings.

7. With what is April energized?
(a) Her work as a housewife.
(b) Tasks such as getting passports and looking into overseas employment.
(c) Planning gatherings for her friends.
(d) Taking care of her children.

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

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

10. Shep is a rebel and resents what?
(a) His past.
(b) His mother's efforts to soften him.
(c) His wife.
(d) His life.

11. What does Frank use to create a walkway in the front of the house?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Stones.
(c) Cinderblocks.
(d) Wooden planks.

12. Where does Frank find temporary solace?
(a) In reading the Sunday comics to his children.
(b) In the quiet of the backyard.
(c) In Maureen, a secretary at work.
(d) In a strong drink.

13. What does the audience do during intermission?
(a) They discuss how wonderful the performance is.
(b) They wander awkwardly around the high school building.
(c) They leave the poor performance.
(d) They complain about the amateur actors.

14. How did Frank respond when April did not consult him with her plans?
(a) He was hurt.
(b) He became angry.
(c) He was relieved.
(d) He was embarrassed.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Frank Wheeler awaken?

2. What does Frank see as the beginning of his father's decline in health, as well as his mother's?

3. What scheduling snafu takes place?

4. What does Frank say when April asks for his forgiveness?

5. Where does John Givings currently live?

(see the answer keys)

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