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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does April Wheeler do as Frank drives off to work?

2. On the drive from the mental hospital, how does John act toward his mother?

3. All four walk outside to the parking lot to discover what?

4. What does April do when Frank approaches and touches her?

5. How does John speak to Frank?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does John act around the Wheelers?

6. How does Shep try to help the Wheelers?

7. How does Jennifer feel about moving to Europe?

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

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

10. What does April repeatedly ask Frank? What does she wonder about Frank?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Frank and April become engaged in affairs.

Part 1) Describe these affairs.

Part 2) Why do they take place? What do these affairs reveal about both Frank and April?

Part 3) How do they treat those with which they are in an affair? Why do they treat them this way?

Part 4) How do these affairs affect their relationships?

Essay Topic 2

The final chapter reveals the various characters dealing with the death of April.

Part 1) How do each of the characters grieve for April? What does this grief reveal about each of them?

Part 2) How do these varying forms of grief reflect how death affects people in real life?

Part 3) How might April feel if she could see her family and neighbors at this point? Use the story to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

The relationship between April and Frank Wheeler is constantly changing throughout this story.

Part 1) How does their relationship appear at the beginning of the story?

Part 2) How does it change throughout the play? What causes these changes?

Part 3) Would you consider this a typical American marriage? Why or why not?

Part 4) Is this relationship supposed to reveal something about real life? If so, what? If not, what is its purpose?

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