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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following items are not mentioned by John when visiting May's grave makes him feel like a contented landlord in Chapter 6?
(a) Plot of ground.
(b) Tended flowers.
(c) Green grass.
(d) Graven tablet.

2. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 35.

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

4. What does the narrator say is "never baffled" in Chapter 6?
(a) One's doom.
(b) His death.
(c) His love for May.
(d) May's death.

5. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Envy.
(c) Shock.
(d) Shudder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is May's response to John when he asks her what is to happen to him at the end of Chapter 4?

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

4. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."

5. What possibility does John feel would be monstrous for May according to his thoughts in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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