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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following items is not mentioned by the narrator as things the visitors of the house looked at near the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Heirlooms.
(b) Treasures of all arts.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Armoires.

2. What is John's last name?
(a) Firestone.
(b) Bartram.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Marcher.

3. What does May suggest what the narrator describes as "perhaps but the expectation--or at any rate the sense of danger, familiar to so many people?"
(a) Dying.
(b) Being sick.
(c) Having a family.
(d) Falling in love.

4. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

5. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?
(a) A luncheon.
(b) A date.
(c) A business meeting.
(d) To meet a friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?

2. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?

3. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?

4. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."

5. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?

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