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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?
(a) About their time in Italy.
(b) If he loved her.
(c) If he was afraid.
(d) If he remembered their first meeting.

2. What is the last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?
(a) Johnston.
(b) Brennan.
(c) Williams.
(d) Boyer.

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

4. Complete this sentence: "Only, you know, the form and the way in your case were to have been--well, something so _____ and, as one may say, so particularly your own."
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Amazing.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Wondrous.

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

6. In what way does John refer to May's waiting on telling him the nature of his secret as in Chapter 3?
(a) Vain.
(b) Vile.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Horrible.

7. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?
(a) Silly.
(b) Odd.
(c) Strange.
(d) Queer.

8. What does John say he might have tasted with every sauce?
(a) The intimate community.
(b) His hate.
(c) May's friendship.
(d) May's love.

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

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

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

12. Complete this sentence: "I see of course what you mean by your ____ me, in this way and that."
(a) Loving.
(b) Cursing.
(c) Saving.
(d) Helping.

13. 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 fox in the forest.
(b) A crouching beast in the jungle.
(c) A shark in the ocean.
(d) A dog in the woods.

14. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"
(a) The hope of fortune.
(b) The dream of acquisition.
(c) A job.
(d) A family.

15. 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) Shudder.
(c) Shock.
(d) Envy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?

2. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?

3. What does John say he felt that he had never felt before in Chapter 3?

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

5. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?

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