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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is May's response to John when he asks her what is to happen to him at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) "It has been done."
(b) "What might have been."
(c) "What was to".
(d) "What will."

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

3. 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 rich.
(d) To be alone.

4. Finish this sentence: "Why I thought it the point you were just making--that we had looked most things in the ______."
(a) Heart.
(b) Head.
(c) Eye.
(d) Face.

5. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?
(a) Terra.
(b) Weatherend.
(c) Fountainbleu.
(d) Le Manse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "Assuredly--if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are _______."

2. What does John attribute as the reason for May being named the successor of her aunt's estate?

3. What does John suggest had lost itself in the desert?

4. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?

5. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?

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