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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) Occurrence.
(d) Tragedy.

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

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

4. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"
(a) The future.
(b) The past.
(c) The truth.
(d) The present.

5. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?
(a) A cross.
(b) A wreath.
(c) A portrait.
(d) A mirror.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?

3. Where does May tell John they actually met?

4. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?

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

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