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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Frank tell Pollock?
(a) The time he visited New York with his father, who expected a promotion.
(b) Pollock is not very good at his job.
(c) How horrible it is working for Knox Machine Company.
(d) How unhappy he is.

2. Frank goes to lengths to project what?
(a) The love he feels for April.
(b) A strong masculinity of the sort that first drew April to him.
(c) A sense of understanding.
(d) His feelings of compromise.

3. How does Frank respond to this woman's comments about Maureen?
(a) He is sorry for the harm he has caused.
(b) He is in love with Maureen and this woman should stay out of his business.
(c) It is none of her business, and she is possibly a lesbian and definetly a pain in the ass.
(d) He understands what the woman is saying and will not see Maureen again.

4. What is the Givings' son doing as Helen and Howard Givings come inside from the rain?
(a) He is singing in the rain.
(b) He is trying to light a cigarette.
(c) He is banging on the door.
(d) He is standing in the rain.

5. What does Millie recall about her feelings at the closing of the sale of the house of Revolutionary Road?
(a) How upset she was.
(b) How nervous she was.
(c) How sad she was.
(d) How excited she was.

6. With what is the conversation between Frank and Pollock juxtaposed?
(a) Frank's memories of his father.
(b) Frank's thoughts about Pollock.
(c) His account that he later gives to April and her reactions.
(d) Frank's thoughts about his career in Europe.

7. How does John speak to Frank?
(a) In a very shy manner.
(b) Kindly.
(c) With great compassion.
(d) A prosecutorial tone.

8. Why do the Campbells and the Wheelers head out for an evening of dancing and drinking at Vito's Log Cabin?
(a) They are bored with each other's company.
(b) Frank wants to go dancing.
(c) Shep wants to spend some time with April.
(d) They have not gone out in a long time.

9. Having completed three more marketing brochures for Bart Pollock, what does Frank Wheeler confidently decide it is time for him to do?
(a) Break off his affair with Maureen Grube.
(b) Leave his wife.
(c) Move to Europe.
(d) Quit his job.

10. How does Frank feel when he awakens the next morning?
(a) Confused about his life.
(b) Glad that April did not perform the abortion.
(c) A sense of dread rather than relief as he realizes that he really doesn't really want another child either.
(d) Sad that he and April will not be having another child.

11. What do April and Frank have for the first time in weeks?
(a) A disagreement.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) A fight.
(d) Contrasting opinions.

12. Why do Howard and Helen Givings drive to Greenacres?
(a) To purchase a farm.
(b) To bring their son, John, home for another Sunday visit with the Wheelers.
(c) To visit Helen's parents.
(d) To spend a day in the country.

13. What does Pollock realize about Earl Wheeler?
(a) He was more talented than his son.
(b) He should have been promoted and brought to New York.
(c) He is the reason why the Knox Machine Company has Frank as an employee.
(d) He has worked his entire career in field offices in Pennsylvania while nurturing hopes of a transfer to the home office in New York.

14. About what does Shep snarl and curse under his breath?
(a) How Frank had been turned into pleasant, empty shell of a man since April's death.
(b) How Frank had allowed April to kill herself.
(c) How Frank had become an angry, bitter man.
(d) How Frank had not allowed an abortion earlier.

15. What does Frank Wheeler tell his wife concerns him?
(a) He will not find work in Paris.
(b) The move might be too much for the children.
(c) The move will be too difficult for him.
(d) The children will resent them for moving them from the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frank chuckle as he storms out of the bistro?

2. What does April coolly interject that Frank should do?

3. What does Frank ask April regarding John's comments?

4. How does Frank counter April's comments and questions?

5. What does Mrs. Givings buy for companionship and to help heal the emotional scars of the Wheelers' tragedy?

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