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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John describe as the frugal way he finishes his evenings with May?
(a) With dessert.
(b) With supper.
(c) With drinks.
(d) With dancing.

2. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The opera.
(c) The park.
(d) The store.

3. 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) Tempted.
(b) Better.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Worst.

4. 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.

5. 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 rich.
(c) To be alone.
(d) To be happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did May "talk of" that John found "deepened the strangeness to see her" in Chapter 4?

2. What does John say May talked with the softness of in Chapter 5?

3. What does the narrator say May's name on her headstone did to John in Chapter 6?

4. Why does John say May cannot simply be a mere confidant in Chapter 2?

5. What does May do during her visit with John to make her statement more "vivid" in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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