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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. As they nurture and cherish their plan to move to Europe, what do April and Frank continue to ridicule?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Their friends.
(c) The Givings' son, John.
(d) The middle class folkways of their suburban neighbors.

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

3. What does Frank fend off?
(a) Repeated calls from his wife.
(b) His boss.
(c) Maureen's flirtatious behavior.
(d) Invitations from other co-workers to join them for lunch.

4. How does the reader learn a lot of back story on the current situation between Frank and April?
(a) Frank's flashback.
(b) A letter from April.
(c) April's flashback.
(d) Frank's argument with April.

5. How do the Wheelers become more and more like the shallow suburbanites they loathe?
(a) As they spend less and less time in New York City.
(b) As they progress further and further with their plans to leave the country.
(c) As they become more involved in community activities.
(d) As they spend more and more time with their suburbanite friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank begin a subtle campaign to rid April of the notion he had put in her head?

2. Who can Frank hardly remember without the aid of a photograph?

3. What does Frank see as the beginning of his father's decline in health, as well as his mother's?

4. Why does Frank suddenly become angry with his son, Michael?

5. How do both April and Frank feel as children?

(see the answer key)

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