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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Complete this sentence: "I don't know why it shouldn't make me _________, which is what we're speaking of as right as it makes you."
(a) Sane.
(b) Humanly.
(c) Jovial.
(d) Happy.

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

5. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"
(a) The present.
(b) The past.
(c) The truth.
(d) The future.

6. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."
(a) Routine.
(b) Habit.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Chore.

7. Where does John claim he first met May in Chapter 1?
(a) Paris.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Florence.

8. 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.

9. What does John say "lay in wait for him, amid the twists and the turns of the months and the years" in Chapter 2?
(a) A dog in the woods.
(b) A shark in the ocean.
(c) A crouching beast in the jungle.
(d) A fox in the forest.

10. On what does John say he doesn't 't think a lady is meant to accompany him in Chapter 2?
(a) A tiger hunt.
(b) Important matters.
(c) A soul search.
(d) A witch hunt.

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

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

13. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) January.
(b) April.
(c) October.
(d) May.

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

15. What kind of failure does the narrator say a "drop of dignity under the shadow" would become in Chapter 3?
(a) Insane.
(b) Horrible.
(c) Silly.
(d) Grotesque.

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization causes John's breath of good faith to come short in Chapter 3?

2. 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."

3. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?

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

5. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."

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