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

2. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?
(a) His secret.
(b) May's voice.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Food.

3. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?
(a) Fine and intrinsic.
(b) Bright and colorful.
(c) Cheap and tawdry.
(d) Drab and bleek.

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

5. Where does May tell John they actually met?
(a) Naples.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?

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

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

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 ________".

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