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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following items is not mentioned by the narrator as things the visitors of the house looked at near the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Armoires.
(b) Heirlooms.
(c) Treasures of all arts.
(d) Pictures.

2. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

3. Complete this sentence: "Not indeed that I in the least connect with my impression the _______ name you use".
(a) Silly.
(b) Invidious.
(c) Occipital.
(d) Serious.

4. 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?"
(a) Falling in love.
(b) Dying.
(c) Being sick.
(d) Having a family.

5. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Watch with him.
(b) Help him.
(c) Wait for him.
(d) Marry him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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 ________".

3. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?

4. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?

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

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