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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A mystic line.
(b) A wall.
(c) A boundary.
(d) An imaginary line.

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

4. 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) Happiness.
(b) Habit.
(c) Routine.
(d) Chore.

5. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Madrid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?

2. What is the last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?

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

4. On what does John say he doesn't 't think a lady is meant to accompany him in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?

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