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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 Frank feel when he awakens the next morning?

2. What of Frank's does Pollock praise?

3. What does Milly Campbell hear?

4. What does April coolly interject that Frank should do?

5. About what does Frank tell Pollock?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How does April act as John leaves for work?

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

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

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

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

9. For what does Pollock praise Frank?

10. What happens when Frank takes Milly home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The author quickly reveals the flaws in the various characters.

Part 1) How are these characters first perceived? How are their flaws soon revealed?

Part 2) What is the purpose of the revelation?

Part 3) How do these flaws give the reader a sense of what is to come?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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