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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 May sat without for the first time that year at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A blanket.
(b) Her chair.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A fire.

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

3. What does John ask to himself in regards to May's "appearance of variation from the usual human type?"
(a) "Is this right?"
(b) "What is the matter?"
(c) "Do you love me?"
(d) "What is it that saves you?"

4. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?
(a) Baubles and jewels.
(b) Grammar and good manners.
(c) Aptitude and chivalry.
(d) Mysterious appreciations and measurements.

5. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?
(a) It would lacerate her.
(b) It would save her.
(c) It would haunt her.
(d) It would kill her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."

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

3. What possibility does John feel would be monstrous for May according to his thoughts in Chapter 4?

4. What does John say he is afraid he has spent his whole life thinking of in Chapter 4?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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