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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Complete this sentence: "I don't know why it shouldn't make me _________, which is what we're speaking of as right as it makes you."
(a) Sane.
(b) Jovial.
(c) Humanly.
(d) Happy.

2. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"
(a) The great rooms.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The attic.
(d) The grounds.

3. Other than when May takes her aunt to town, what is the other occasion in which John is able to see her during their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) When she visited friends.
(b) When she picked up groceries.
(c) When she shopped for food.
(d) When she took out the trash.

4. What does John say May's whole attitude was in Chapter 2?
(a) A virtual statement.
(b) A mirage.
(c) A blessing.
(d) A curse.

5. Finish this sentence: "Assuredly--if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are _______."
(a) Thinkable.
(b) Happening.
(c) Caused.
(d) Possible.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?

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