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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. As they return from lunch, what does Frank see other co-workers doing?
(a) Strolling about in the sun, taking their last few minutes of freedom, and realizes that his freedom lies just two months ahead.
(b) Slowly walking into the building.
(c) Complaining to each other.
(d) Smoking cigarettes.

2. For what does April apologize again?
(a) Being hot-headed.
(b) Being hard to live with since her involvement with the community theater.
(c) Being rude and unkind.
(d) Making plans without discussing them with him first.

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

4. Where does John Givings currently live?
(a) The North Fork.
(b) In Pendleton Penitentiary.
(c) With his parents.
(d) At Greenacres, the state mental hospital.

5. Why does Frank suddenly stop making love to April?
(a) He goes to shower to scrub off the "second skin" of Maureen Grube.
(b) He misses Maureen.
(c) He feels guilty.
(d) He does not love her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does April recount?

2. How does Frank begin a subtle campaign to rid April of the notion he had put in her head?

3. What does Frank have Maureen Grube do?

4. Where was Helen formerly a stenographer?

5. What do Frank and April begin doing to each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the audience members and actors feel at intermission?

2. What does April think about her plan to move to Europe?

3. On what does Ordway quiz Frank?

4. What do Frank and Maureen do after lunch?

5. How does Frank's father feel when they return from the city?

6. What does Maureen tell Frank at lunch?

7. How does Frank react to April's mood?

8. About what do the Wheelers and their guests discuss?

9. How does the story begin?

10. How did April want to handle the situation she and Frank had been in early in their relationship?

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