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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is April Wheeler introduced?
(a) As a plain looking, quiet woman.
(b) As a lonely teenage girl.
(c) As a horrible actress and annoying housewife.
(d) As a beautiful, poised young woman, possessed of a lot of stage presence.

2. Why does Frank suddenly stop making love to April?
(a) He feels guilty.
(b) He does not love her.
(c) He misses Maureen.
(d) He goes to shower to scrub off the "second skin" of Maureen Grube.

3. Once the floor is as empty as it will get, Frank steps into Ms. Grube's office and does what?
(a) Tells her to go home.
(b) Relieves her of her duties and asks her to lunch.
(c) Apologizes to her.
(d) Sleeps with her.

4. How does Frank try to change the subject?
(a) He launches into a passionate speech about health care reform and problems with the social security system.
(b) He launches into a passionate speech about the shallowness of people who come to the suburbs.
(c) He launches into a passionate speech about how much his wife annoys him.
(d) He launches into a passionate discussion about his childhood.

5. What kind of husband does April not want?
(a) One who is not willing to do as she asks.
(b) One who is poor.
(c) One who cannot think for himself.
(d) One who works himself into an early grave at a job he hates for a house and life in suburbia that means nothing to them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. About what do the Wheelers and their guests talk?

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

5. Why is Frank worried?

(see the answer key)

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