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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. Why does Jennifer, the older child, become sullen?
(a) The family is still moving to Europe.
(b) The family is no longer moving to Europe.
(c) As she tries to figure out what is going on.
(d) She is in a fight with her best friend.

2. Frank awakens on a bright August morning to realize what?
(a) It is the last day when April could successfully perform an auto-abortion.
(b) It is past the day that April could successful perform an auto-abortion.
(c) April probably has already performed the auto-abortion.
(d) He wants April to have the abortion.

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

4. What does April repeatedly ask Frank about living in Europe?
(a) If he is sure he still wants to move.
(b) If he wants to move within the month.
(c) How he would feel about taking long vacation in Europe with his income as a successful employee of Knox Business Machines.
(d) How he would feel about not moving to Europe.

5. As he gets off the bus in her New York neighborhood on a Friday afternoon, by whom is Frank approached?
(a) Milly Campbell.
(b) Norma Townsend.
(c) Maureen Grube.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Milly Campbell call her husband Shep at work?

2. How does Frank respond to this woman's comments about Maureen?

3. Where does Shep plan to meet Frank?

4. Who is Bart Pollock?

5. Why do the Campbells and the Wheelers head out for an evening of dancing and drinking at Vito's Log Cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Wheelers figure about? How does Frank respond to this information?

2. How does Frank react when he awakens on a bright August morning to realize that this is the last day, according to April's calendar, when she could successfully perform an auto-abortion?

3. What does Frank realize about the hotel where Bart Pollock takes him to lunch?

4. For what does Pollock praise Frank?

5. How does April act as John leaves for work?

6. How does John act around the Wheelers?

7. How did Milly feel about selling the house to the Brace family?

8. What are Frank's concerns?

9. How does John act on his way in the car to the Wheelers'?

10. How do the characters know something happened to April?

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