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

2. 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 _____."
(a) Routine.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Habit.
(d) Chore.

3. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?
(a) Silly.
(b) Queer.
(c) Strange.
(d) Odd.

4. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) January.
(b) May.
(c) October.
(d) April.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Complete this sentence: "Only, you know, the form and the way in your case were to have been--well, something so _____ and, as one may say, so particularly your own."

5. What is May's last name?

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