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

2. About whom is April's flashback?

3. What does Pollock realize about Earl Wheeler?

4. What is the Givings' son doing as Helen and Howard Givings come inside from the rain?

5. What does April do with what she has retrieved?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Frank takes Milly home?

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

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

5. What does Milly recount about the final resolution of the Wheeler family?

6. What does Frank decide once he has completed three more marketing brochures for Bart Pollock?

7. How does Jennifer feel about moving to Europe?

8. What are Frank's concerns?

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

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

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 issue of sanity is raised.

Part 1) How is this issue raised?

Part 2) Who would you consider to be insane? Why?

Part 3) What is the purpose of blurring the line between sanity and insanity?

Essay Topic 3

Frank feels conflicting feelings about his work.

Part 1) Where does Frank work? Why does he have conflicting feelings about his work?

Part 2) How is the plan to move to France affecting him at work? Why does it affect him this way?

Part 3) How does his view of his work situation change over the course of the book? Why do these changes occur?

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