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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?
(a) It would haunt her.
(b) It would lacerate her.
(c) It would save her.
(d) It would kill her.

3. What does John say he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?
(a) Being happy.
(b) Being whole.
(c) Being young.
(d) Being lonely.

4. 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?"
(a) Having a family.
(b) Falling in love.
(c) Being sick.
(d) Dying.

5. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"
(a) The love in May's heart.
(b) The great vagueness.
(c) His hope.
(d) His love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization causes John's breath of good faith to come short in Chapter 3?

2. What is John's last name?

3. What is May always sitting next to when John comes to see her?

4. Where does John say he took May during their visits in Chapter 2?

5. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"

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