The Beast in the Jungle | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?

A luncheon.

2. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?

Weatherend.

3. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?

Fine and intrinsic.

4. 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?

Armoires.

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

Famous.

6. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"

The great rooms.

7. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?

Mysterious appreciations and...
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