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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 John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
(a) To be alone.
(b) To not be anything.
(c) To be unhappy.
(d) To be rich.

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

3. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Watch with him.
(b) Help him.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Wait for him.

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

5. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) "Are you afraid?"
(b) "Has it passed?"
(c) "Are you ready?"
(d) "Is it soon?"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does say he is John after May says she is impressed with his new attitude near the end of Chapter 2?

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

4. Which of the following items is not mentioned by the narrator as things the visitors of the house looked at near the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. Why does John say May cannot simply be a mere confidant in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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