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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?
(a) Aptitude and chivalry.
(b) Grammar and good manners.
(c) Baubles and jewels.
(d) Mysterious appreciations and measurements.

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

3. Where does John say he took May during their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) The National Museum.
(b) The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum.
(c) The botanical gardens.
(d) The Kensington Gallery.

4. What event does John say made his and May's meetings more multiplied at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Her great-aunt's death.
(b) Her moving to his house.
(c) Her moving to the country.
(d) His losing his job.

5. What does John say an outlook geared towards talking about his secret with May would cause him to have?
(a) A hunchback.
(b) A headache.
(c) A sore throat.
(d) An ear ache.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ________".

2. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"

3. Complete this sentence: "Our habit saves you, at least, don't you see because it makes you, after all, for the ______, indistinguishable from other men."

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

5. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."

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