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

2. 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.

3. April lights another cigarette and retrieves what?
(a) Her passport.
(b) A note from Shep.
(c) The crumpled copy of a letter she tried to write to Frank.
(d) A letter from Frank.

4. Why do the Wheelers have long discussions in exotic restaurants and on long drives through the woods and in New York?
(a) As they try to regain the upper hand on what has become a hot emotional issue and to behave like the chic, sophisticated adults they believe themselves to be.
(b) To make sure they want to leave this country.
(c) To adjust to being away from their friends.
(d) To enjoy their last few moments in this country.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom is April's flashback?

2. What does this woman tell Frank about Maureen?

3. Why does Jennifer, the older child, become sullen?

4. How does the Wheelers' daughter, Jennifer, react to their move to Europe?

5. About what does Frank tell Pollock?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does April do with the letter she had written John?

2. What happens when Frank takes Milly home?

3. What are Frank's concerns?

4. How does Frank act, once the Givings leave?

5. For what does Pollock praise Frank?

6. 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?

7. What reactions do the Wheelers receive when they announce they have decided not to move to France?

8. What does Norma tell Frank?

9. How does Frank react when April does not seem to think that what John said was insane?

10. What do the Campbells and Wheelers do when they are bored with each other's company?

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