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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"
(a) The attic.
(b) The grounds.
(c) The great rooms.
(d) The kitchen.

3. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

4. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?
(a) Honest.
(b) Content.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Happy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is John's last name?

3. What does May suggest what the narrator describes as "perhaps but the expectation--or at any rate the sense of danger, familiar to so many people?"

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

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

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