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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did May "talk of" that John found "deepened the strangeness to see her" in Chapter 4?
(a) Vulgarity.
(b) Horrors.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Love.

2. What does May touch near her chimney before becoming ill near the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A bell.
(b) A note.
(c) A shelf.
(d) A figurine.

3. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Pompeii.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

4. What does John describe as the frugal way he finishes his evenings with May?
(a) With dancing.
(b) With supper.
(c) With dessert.
(d) With drinks.

5. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?
(a) It would lacerate her.
(b) It would haunt her.
(c) It would kill her.
(d) It would save her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following items does John not associate with when defining failure in Chapter 3?

2. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?

3. What does John say he is afraid he has spent his whole life thinking of in Chapter 4?

4. Complete this sentence: "We've had together great __________, often great fears; but some of them have been unspoken."

5. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?

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