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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) His past.
(b) May.
(c) His lies.
(d) A mysterious fate.

2. What does the narrator say began for John "in a thick cluster" and at the time when "the unexpected died out?"
(a) Surprises.
(b) Lies.
(c) Secrets.
(d) Agony.

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

4. What does John say he will profit extraordinarily little from in Chapter 5?
(a) May's interest in him.
(b) His fortune.
(c) May's death.
(d) May's fortune.

5. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Happy.
(c) Real.
(d) Successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John sit after leaving May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. How is May's chair described in Chapter 3?

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

4. What reason does John give for not wanting to question May about what she knows about his secret in Chapter 4?

5. Complete this sentence: "You mean that it has come as a positive definite ______, with a name and a date."

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