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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 the one desire he has left at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) That he shouldn't have been sold.
(b) To be happy.
(c) To be alone.
(d) To be rich.

2. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?
(a) Shock.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Shudder.
(d) Envy.

3. What does May refer to John's secret as to him in Chapter 2?
(a) The secret death.
(b) The past.
(c) The real truth about you.
(d) The dirty laundry.

4. 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 rich.
(d) To be unhappy.

5. Where does May tell John they actually met?
(a) Naples.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say he might have tasted with every sauce?

2. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?

3. What does the narrator say was the character of the only things that passed between May and John at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?

5. What kind of failure does the narrator say a "drop of dignity under the shadow" would become in Chapter 3?

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