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

2. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The opera.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) The store.
(d) The park.

3. What realization causes John's breath of good faith to come short in Chapter 3?
(a) How long he had waited to discover his secret.
(b) That he was sick too.
(c) That he would miss May.
(d) That he loved May.

4. Complete this sentence: "God knows I don't want anything. It's only a question of the __________ that haunts me."
(a) Nervousness.
(b) Apprehension.
(c) Day.
(d) Act.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?

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

4. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?

5. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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