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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Complete this sentence: "God knows I don't want anything. It's only a question of the __________ that haunts me."
(a) Act.
(b) Apprehension.
(c) Nervousness.
(d) Day.

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

5. 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) Happy.
(c) Humanly.
(d) Jovial.

6. What does John say he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?
(a) Being happy.
(b) Being lonely.
(c) Being young.
(d) Being whole.

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

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

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

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

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

12. When does John say his and May's friendship had "sprung into being" in Chapter 2?
(a) With her first penetrating question.
(b) With her first smile.
(c) With her first glare.
(d) With her first word.

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

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

15. What does May refer to John's secret as to him in Chapter 2?
(a) The real truth about you.
(b) The secret death.
(c) The dirty laundry.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?

2. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?

3. What quality of May's does John claim she has "finer" than him?

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

5. Which of the following items does John not associate with when defining failure in Chapter 3?

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