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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 ask to himself in regards to May's "appearance of variation from the usual human type?"
(a) "Do you love me?"
(b) "What is it that saves you?"
(c) "What is the matter?"
(d) "Is this right?"

2. What kind of failure does the narrator say a "drop of dignity under the shadow" would become in Chapter 3?
(a) Grotesque.
(b) Silly.
(c) Insane.
(d) Horrible.

3. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?
(a) Content.
(b) Honest.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sweet.

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

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?
(a) A dog in the woods.
(b) A crouching beast in the jungle.
(c) A fox in the forest.
(d) A shark in the ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."

2. What does May tell John she has a disorder of in Chapter 3?

3. Finish this sentence: "There have been days when I though you were, only of course, there have been days when we have thought almost _______."

4. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?

5. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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