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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) "Are you afraid?"
(b) "Has it passed?"
(c) "Are you ready?"
(d) "Is it soon?"

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?

3. What is John's last name?

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

5. 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?

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