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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"
(a) A family.
(b) The hope of fortune.
(c) A job.
(d) The dream of acquisition.

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

3. What does May ask John is in question for her after they begin discussing his secret near the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Her intimacy.
(b) Her happiness.
(c) Her sadness.
(d) Her sanity.

4. On what does John say he doesn't 't think a lady is meant to accompany him in Chapter 2?
(a) A witch hunt.
(b) Important matters.
(c) A tiger hunt.
(d) A soul search.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is May's chair described in Chapter 3?

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

4. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"

5. Complete this sentence: "I see of course what you mean by your ____ me, in this way and that."

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