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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the audience also do during intermission?
(a) Donate money to the community theater.
(b) Go backstage to congratulate the actors.
(c) Wipe perspiration from their hands onto their clothing.
(d) Buy food.

3. Of what does Frank reassure April?
(a) French is an easy language to learn.
(b) They will both pick up the language fast once they start living there.
(c) They will take French classes before they move.
(d) Most people in France speak English.

4. How do the Wheelers become more and more like the shallow suburbanites they loathe?
(a) As they spend more and more time with their suburbanite friends.
(b) As they progress further and further with their plans to leave the country.
(c) As they spend less and less time in New York City.
(d) As they become more involved in community activities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank decide to do, regarding Maureen?

2. About what is the audience disgruntled?

3. How does sixty-seven-year-old Howard Givings look and act?

4. What does Frank use to create a walkway in the front of the house?

5. With what does Frank Wheeler awaken?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Frank and April's relationship begin?

2. Describe Frank's first visit to this building.

3. With what does Frank struggle?

4. What does Maureen tell Frank at lunch?

5. What happens to April's acting as the second half of the play progresses?

6. How does the story begin?

7. How does the decision to move to Paris affect the Wheelers?

8. How does Frank feel about seeing his wife on stage?

9. What does the Knox Building represent?

10. What does Shep Campbell do as he polishes his shoes?

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