View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Over what statement do Frank and April still fight?
(a) April's statement that Frank is a more moral person than her because he seems better able to accept her pregnancy.
(b) April's statement that she is a more moral person than him because she seems better able to accept her pregnancy.
(c) Frank's statement that he is a more moral person than her because he seems better able to accept her pregnancy.
(d) Frank's statement that April is a more moral person than him because she seems better able to accept her pregnancy.

3. 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.

4. On the drive from the mental hospital, how does John act toward his mother?
(a) Aggressively rude.
(b) Shy and quiet.
(c) Straighforward.
(d) Odd.

5. Why does Frank says what John says is wrong?
(a) John is cruel.
(b) John is insane.
(c) John is confused.
(d) John is a stranger.

6. About whom is April's flashback?
(a) Frank.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Shep.

7. How does Frank feel when he awakens the next morning?
(a) Sad that he and April will not be having another child.
(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) Confused about his life.

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

9. April laughs at Frank and asks what?
(a) Whether Frank is as crazy as John.
(b) Whether he thinks she is crazy because she doesn't love him.
(c) Whether Frank still loves her.
(d) Whether John should still be in an institution.

10. Does John accept Frank's explanation for why they decided not to move?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) For a moment.

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

12. Are Mr. and Mrs. Givings able to quiet their son?
(a) Yes.
(b) For a moment.
(c) For several minutes.
(d) No.

13. Out what does Shep get Frank Wheeler in New York?
(a) A concert.
(b) A staff meeting.
(c) Lunch.
(d) A conference.

14. What does Pollock do when he learns of Frank's plans to leave the company?
(a) He seeks to lure him into a high-paying position.
(b) He begs him to stay.
(c) He becomes angry and fires him.
(d) He forbids him to leave and break his contract.

15. What does Mrs. Givings buy for companionship and to help heal the emotional scars of the Wheelers' tragedy?
(a) A bird.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A cat.
(d) A puppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does April do with what she has retrieved?

2. What does Frank Wheeler tell his wife concerns him?

3. About what does this woman grill Frank?

4. About what does Frank tell Pollock?

5. What does Milly Campbell hear?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 687 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample