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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Frank tell Pollock?
(a) How unhappy he is.
(b) Pollock is not very good at his job.
(c) How horrible it is working for Knox Machine Company.
(d) The time he visited New York with his father, who expected a promotion.

2. What does Frank also seem better able to do at the office?
(a) Compromise with his boss.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Quickly dispatch accumulated paperwork as well as new communications.
(d) Socialize with his co-workers.

3. What does Frank see as the beginning of his father's decline in health, as well as his mother's?
(a) His move to New York.
(b) The loss of his job.
(c) The disappointment of not receiving the big promotion.
(d) The dislike he feels towards the Knox Machine Company.

4. With what is the conversation between Frank and Pollock juxtaposed?
(a) Frank's memories of his father.
(b) Frank's thoughts about his career in Europe.
(c) His account that he later gives to April and her reactions.
(d) Frank's thoughts about Pollock.

5. What does Frank use to create a walkway in the front of the house?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Cinderblocks.
(c) Stones.
(d) Wooden planks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank admit to himself, through the haze of his hangover?

2. Once the floor is as empty as it will get, Frank steps into Ms. Grube's office and does what?

3. Why does Earl come home crestfallen?

4. How does the reader learn a lot of back story on the current situation between Frank and April?

5. As they nurture and cherish their plan to move to Europe, what do April and Frank continue to ridicule?

(see the answer key)

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