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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 the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?
(a) Baubles and jewels.
(b) Aptitude and chivalry.
(c) Grammar and good manners.
(d) Mysterious appreciations and measurements.

2. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?
(a) For he and May to be friends.
(b) For May to be so involved in his secret.
(c) For May to be granted her inheritance.
(d) For he and May to become married.

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

4. What kind of stare does the man in mourning give John in Chapter 6?
(a) Immediate and vague.
(b) Haunting and dreary.
(c) Ominous.
(d) Sad.

5. What does the narrator say May sat without for the first time that year at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A fire.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A scarf.
(d) Her chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?

2. What is John's last name?

3. What does John realize his escape would have been near the end of Chapter 6?

4. Complete the sentence: "I thought of _______ things, between which it was difficult to choose; and so must you have done."

5. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"

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