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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May tell John she has a disorder of in Chapter 3?
(a) Blood.
(b) Brain.
(c) Heart.
(d) Lungs.

2. What does May ask John is in question for her after they begin discussing his secret near the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Her sadness.
(b) Her intimacy.
(c) Her happiness.
(d) Her sanity.

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

4. What does John say an outlook geared towards talking about his secret with May would cause him to have?
(a) A headache.
(b) A hunchback.
(c) A sore throat.
(d) An ear ache.

5. What does May claim is the only thing that concerns her after she and John begin discussing his secret in Chapter 3?
(a) For John to pass as normal.
(b) For John to be happy.
(c) For her to be happy.
(d) For them to be friends.

6. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) London.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Madrid.

7. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?
(a) It would save her.
(b) It would lacerate her.
(c) It would kill her.
(d) It would haunt her.

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

9. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"
(a) His hope.
(b) The love in May's heart.
(c) The great vagueness.
(d) His love.

10. What do May and John do together in Chapter 3 that reminds him of the question she wouldn't answer for him regarding his secret?
(a) Play the piano.
(b) Sing.
(c) Go over opera passages.
(d) Listen to operas.

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

12. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A mystic line.
(b) A boundary.
(c) A wall.
(d) An imaginary line.

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

14. Which of the following attributes does John say about May regarding her interest in his secret in Chapter 2?
(a) Seriousness.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Sympathy.

15. Finish this sentence: "There have been days when I though you were, only of course, there have been days when we have thought almost _______."
(a) Everything.
(b) Something.
(c) Anything.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John suggest had lost itself in the desert?

2. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?

3. 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 ________".

4. Where does John say he took May during their visits in Chapter 2?

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

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