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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 last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?
(a) Boyer.
(b) Brennan.
(c) Johnston.
(d) Williams.

2. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?
(a) For he and May to be friends.
(b) For he and May to become married.
(c) For May to be so involved in his secret.
(d) For May to be granted her inheritance.

3. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?
(a) A portrait.
(b) A cross.
(c) A wreath.
(d) A mirror.

4. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?
(a) Athens.
(b) Pompeii.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

5. Complete this sentence: "I see of course what you mean by your ____ me, in this way and that."
(a) Saving.
(b) Loving.
(c) Helping.
(d) Cursing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?

2. What event does John say made his and May's meetings more multiplied at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?

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

5. 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?"

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