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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) Sanity.
(d) Egotism.

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

4. What kind of failure does the narrator say a "drop of dignity under the shadow" would become in Chapter 3?
(a) Insane.
(b) Horrible.
(c) Grotesque.
(d) Silly.

5. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) Rome.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John ask to himself in regards to May's "appearance of variation from the usual human type?"

2. Which of the following attributes does John say about May regarding her interest in his secret in Chapter 2?

3. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?

4. What does John say he felt that he had never felt before in Chapter 3?

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

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