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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."
(a) Tempted.
(b) Worst.
(c) Better.
(d) Vulgar.

2. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?
(a) Fountainbleu.
(b) Weatherend.
(c) Le Manse.
(d) Terra.

3. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?
(a) Fine and intrinsic.
(b) Drab and bleek.
(c) Bright and colorful.
(d) Cheap and tawdry.

4. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?
(a) If he loved her.
(b) If he was afraid.
(c) If he remembered their first meeting.
(d) About their time in Italy.

5. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"
(a) The truth.
(b) The past.
(c) The present.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?

2. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?

3. What does John say an outlook geared towards talking about his secret with May would cause him to have?

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

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

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