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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Complete this sentence: "God knows I don't want anything. It's only a question of the __________ that haunts me."
(a) Apprehension.
(b) Nervousness.
(c) Act.
(d) Day.

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) Imaginary.
(b) Wondrous.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Exceptional.

3. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?
(a) Famous.
(b) Magnificent.
(c) Spoiled.
(d) Haunted.

4. What do May and John do together in Chapter 3 that reminds him of the question she wouldn't answer for him regarding his secret?
(a) Go over opera passages.
(b) Play the piano.
(c) Listen to operas.
(d) Sing.

5. 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 sanity.
(c) Her sadness.
(d) Her happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than when May takes her aunt to town, what is the other occasion in which John is able to see her during their visits in Chapter 2?

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

3. What is the last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?

4. 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 _____."

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

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