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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"
(a) A family.
(b) The hope of fortune.
(c) A job.
(d) The dream of acquisition.

2. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
(a) To be alone.
(b) To be rich.
(c) To be unhappy.
(d) To not be anything.

3. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) May.
(b) A mysterious fate.
(c) His lies.
(d) His past.

4. What does John say an outlook geared towards talking about his secret with May would cause him to have?
(a) A hunchback.
(b) An ear ache.
(c) A headache.
(d) A sore throat.

5. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?
(a) Sad.
(b) Calm.
(c) Settled.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

2. What circumstance does John say was "in the lap of the gods" and "touched him so nearly?"

3. What do May and John do together in Chapter 3 that reminds him of the question she wouldn't answer for him regarding his secret?

4. What does John attribute as the reason for May being named the successor of her aunt's estate?

5. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?

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