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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality of May's does John claim she has "finer" than him?
(a) Her compassion.
(b) Her heart.
(c) Her nerves.
(d) Her skin.

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

3. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?
(a) Content.
(b) Honest.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?
(a) To meet a friend.
(b) A business meeting.
(c) A date.
(d) A luncheon.

11. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."
(a) Travesty.
(b) Occurrence.
(c) Reality.
(d) Tragedy.

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

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

14. Where does John say he took May during their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) The botanical gardens.
(b) The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum.
(c) The Kensington Gallery.
(d) The National Museum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following attributes does John say about May regarding her interest in his secret in Chapter 2?

2. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?

3. What does May refer to John's secret as to him in Chapter 2?

4. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?

5. On what does John say he doesn't 't think a lady is meant to accompany him in Chapter 2?

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