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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does May tell John they actually met?
(a) Venice.
(b) Naples.
(c) Rome.
(d) Florence.

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

3. What does John suggest had lost itself in the desert?
(a) May's sanity.
(b) His secret.
(c) May's beauty.
(d) His fear.

4. What circumstance does John say was "in the lap of the gods" and "touched him so nearly?"
(a) May's new job.
(b) May's acquiring a house in London.
(c) His buying a new home.
(d) His job.

5. What does May tell John is not repaid as time goes on in Chapter 2?
(a) His worth.
(b) His sadness.
(c) His happiness.
(d) His curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?

2. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?

3. What does John say "lay in wait for him, amid the twists and the turns of the months and the years" in Chapter 2?

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

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

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