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

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

3. 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) Sunset.
(c) Breeze.
(d) Harbor.

4. Which of the following does John not imagine May does in regards to the home she is staying at in Chapter 1?
(a) The favorite haunts of the ghost.
(b) The styles of the furniture.
(c) The authorship of the pictures.
(d) The color of the walls.

5. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?
(a) Terra.
(b) Fountainbleu.
(c) Weatherend.
(d) Le Manse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is John's last name?

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

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

5. 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?"

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