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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?
(a) The abyss.
(b) The mystic line.
(c) The heart.
(d) The tiger.

2. Complete this sentence: "I don't know why it shouldn't make me _________, which is what we're speaking of as right as it makes you."
(a) Jovial.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sane.
(d) Humanly.

3. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Help him.
(b) Watch with him.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Wait for him.

4. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?
(a) Queer.
(b) Odd.
(c) Strange.
(d) Silly.

5. How is May's chair described in Chapter 3?
(a) Dark brown.
(b) Deep and old fashioned.
(c) Old and dusty.
(d) Leather and tarnished.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Complete this sentence: "Our habit saves you, at least, don't you see because it makes you, after all, for the ______, indistinguishable from other men."

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

4. When does John say his and May's friendship had "sprung into being" in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"

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