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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John have a "dreadful sense" of in Chapter 5?
(a) May's health.
(b) Standing before May for the last time.
(c) His loneliness.
(d) His sanity.

2. What possibility does John feel would be monstrous for May according to his thoughts in Chapter 4?
(a) If he died.
(b) If she died.
(c) If she made a mistake being his friend.
(d) If they had been married.

3. Finish this sentence: "You know you told me something I've never forgotten and that again and again has made me think of you since; it was that tremendously hot day when we went to Sorrento, across the bay, for the ________".
(a) Sunset.
(b) Harbor.
(c) Light.
(d) Breeze.

4. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Rome.
(c) Pompeii.
(d) Athens.

5. Why does John say May cannot simply be a mere confidant in Chapter 2?
(a) Because she doesn't trust him.
(b) Because he doesn't trust her.
(c) Because she is a woman.
(d) Because of her interest in his predicament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "It seems to me I liked it better present, as you say, than I can like it absent with your _________."

2. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?

3. What event does John say made his and May's meetings more multiplied at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

5. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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