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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say always "reigned" in regards to May's home in Chapter 4?
(a) Food.
(b) High quality.
(c) New items.
(d) Household care.

2. What does May grab for support when she stands during her conversation with John in Chapter 4?
(a) The clock.
(b) A shelf.
(c) The chair.
(d) The sofa.

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

4. What does May claim is the only thing that concerns her after she and John begin discussing his secret in Chapter 3?
(a) For them to be friends.
(b) For her to be happy.
(c) For John to pass as normal.
(d) For John to be happy.

5. What does John say were "washed like figures traced in the sea-sand?"
(a) His love for May.
(b) His passion for life.
(c) Ideas about his secret.
(d) May's love for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what month does John visit May at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"

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

4. What does John say May's whole attitude was in Chapter 2?

5. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."

(see the answer key)

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