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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?
(a) Famous.
(b) Haunted.
(c) Spoiled.
(d) Magnificent.

2. What does say he is John after May says she is impressed with his new attitude near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Heroic.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Afraid.

3. What does May say to John when he asks her how he could ever repay her keeping his secret in Chapter 3?
(a) "By going on as you are."
(b) "Go be happy and conspire."
(c) "Lets go off together happily."
(d) "We shall celebrate."

4. Where does May tell John they actually met?
(a) Florence.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Naples.

5. What does May say to John regarding his secret at the very end of Chapter 2?
(a) "You'll never find out."
(b) "It will be fine."
(c) "What do you think of this?"
(d) "It's going to be soon."

6. What does May refer to John's secret as to him in Chapter 2?
(a) The past.
(b) The dirty laundry.
(c) The secret death.
(d) The real truth about you.

7. What does the narrator say was the character of the only things that passed between May and John at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Recalls and results.
(b) Facts and answers.
(c) Jibber and Jabber.
(d) Notes and notations.

8. Which of the following items does John not associate with when defining failure in Chapter 3?
(a) The secrets of the gods had grown faint.
(b) The possibilities have turned stale.
(c) The times of the ages.
(d) When the possibilities have evaporated.

9. What does the narrator say John kept up and felt very decently about in Chapter 3?
(a) His unselfishness.
(b) May's future.
(c) His future.
(d) May's health.

10. What does John say he felt that he had never felt before in Chapter 3?
(a) His lack of intimacy.
(b) His lonliness.
(c) His happiness.
(d) The dread in the thought of losing May.

11. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?
(a) Settled.
(b) Happy.
(c) Calm.
(d) Sad.

12. What does John say May's whole attitude was in Chapter 2?
(a) A blessing.
(b) A mirage.
(c) A curse.
(d) A virtual statement.

13. Finish this sentence: "You know you told me something I've never forgotten and that again and again has made me think of you since; it was that tremendously hot day when we went to Sorrento, across the bay, for the ________".
(a) Sunset.
(b) Harbor.
(c) Light.
(d) Breeze.

14. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Egotism.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Helplessness.
(d) Sanity.

15. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?
(a) Bright and colorful.
(b) Drab and bleek.
(c) Fine and intrinsic.
(d) Cheap and tawdry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete this sentence: "Not indeed that I in the least connect with my impression the _______ name you use".

2. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?

3. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?

4. What circumstance does John say was "in the lap of the gods" and "touched him so nearly?"

5. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?

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