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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"
(a) The present.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) The truth.

2. Finish this sentence: "It isn't a question for you of conceiving, imagining, ______."
(a) Living.
(b) Giving.
(c) Dying.
(d) Comparing.

3. What words does John use to describe May's appearance near the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) "Senseless."
(b) "Out of it."
(c) "Out of sorts."
(d) "In the zone."

4. What does John say was an oddity in regards to his nervousness in Chapter 4?
(a) That he was not more nervous.
(b) That is came at all.
(c) That it came before his doubts.
(d) That he was less nervous than he had thought.

5. Complete this sentence: "Our habit saves you, at least, don't you see because it makes you, after all, for the ______, indistinguishable from other men."
(a) Worst.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Better.
(d) Tempted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?

2. What does John say were "washed like figures traced in the sea-sand?"

3. 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 _____."

4. What does John say he is afraid he has spent his whole life thinking of in Chapter 4?

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?

(see the answer key)

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