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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
(a) To not be anything.
(b) To be alone.
(c) To be unhappy.
(d) To be rich.

2. 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) Imaginary.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Wondrous.

3. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?
(a) Fountainbleu.
(b) Terra.
(c) Le Manse.
(d) Weatherend.

4. What does May tell John is not repaid as time goes on in Chapter 2?
(a) His curiosity.
(b) His sadness.
(c) His worth.
(d) His happiness.

5. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Watch with him.
(b) Wait for him.
(c) Help him.
(d) Marry him.

6. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

7. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?
(a) Food.
(b) May's voice.
(c) Laughter.
(d) His secret.

8. 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) Sing.
(b) Go over opera passages.
(c) Listen to operas.
(d) Play the piano.

9. 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."
(a) Worst.
(b) Better.
(c) Tempted.
(d) Vulgar.

10. What is May's last name?
(a) Black.
(b) Sampson.
(c) Bartram.
(d) Thompson.

11. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?
(a) Shock.
(b) Shudder.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Envy.

12. Which of the following does John not mention regarding "the thing that waited" and it's jurisdiction to him in Chapter 3?
(a) Within an inch.
(b) By any chance of a truth.
(c) Within touch or reach.
(d) Within sight or sound.

13. What does John say is the one desire he has left at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) To be happy.
(b) To be rich.
(c) To be alone.
(d) That he shouldn't have been sold.

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

15. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) His lies.
(b) A mysterious fate.
(c) His past.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is May's chair described in Chapter 3?

3. What does the narrator say was the character of the only things that passed between May and John at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What is May always sitting next to when John comes to see her?

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