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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following items does John not associate with when defining failure in Chapter 3?
(a) When the possibilities have evaporated.
(b) The secrets of the gods had grown faint.
(c) The times of the ages.
(d) The possibilities have turned stale.

2. 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."
(a) Amazing.
(b) Wondrous.
(c) Exceptional.
(d) Imaginary.

3. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Egotism.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Sanity.

4. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) His lies.
(b) His past.
(c) May.
(d) A mysterious fate.

5. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"
(a) The truth.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) The present.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May claim is the only thing that concerns her after she and John begin discussing his secret in Chapter 3?

2. Where does May tell John they actually met?

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

4. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?

5. What does John say "lay in wait for him, amid the twists and the turns of the months and the years" in Chapter 2?

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