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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 was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?
(a) A date.
(b) A business meeting.
(c) To meet a friend.
(d) A luncheon.

2. What does May say to John when he asks her how he could ever repay her keeping his secret in Chapter 3?
(a) "Go be happy and conspire."
(b) "We shall celebrate."
(c) "Lets go off together happily."
(d) "By going on as you are."

3. When does John say his and May's friendship had "sprung into being" in Chapter 2?
(a) With her first penetrating question.
(b) With her first word.
(c) With her first glare.
(d) With her first smile.

4. Complete this sentence: "I see of course what you mean by your ____ me, in this way and that."
(a) Cursing.
(b) Saving.
(c) Loving.
(d) Helping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?

2. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?

3. Where does May tell John they actually met?

4. What circumstance does John say was "in the lap of the gods" and "touched him so nearly?"

5. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"

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