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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."
(a) Travesty.
(b) Reality.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Occurrence.

2. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) May.
(d) January.

3. What is John's last name?
(a) Firestone.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Bartram.
(d) Marcher.

4. 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) Light.
(b) Breeze.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Harbor.

5. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?
(a) Spoiled.
(b) Haunted.
(c) Famous.
(d) Magnificent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does John not imagine May does in regards to the home she is staying at in Chapter 1?

2. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"

3. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"

4. Where does John claim he first met May in Chapter 1?

5. Where does May tell John they actually met?

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