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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Being sick.
(b) Dying.
(c) Having a family.
(d) Falling in love.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?

2. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."

3. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?

4. Complete this sentence: "God knows I don't want anything. It's only a question of the __________ that haunts me."

5. What is May's last name?

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