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

2. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?
(a) A monsoon.
(b) A thunderstorm.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A sandstorm.

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

4. What does John suggest had lost itself in the desert?
(a) His secret.
(b) His fear.
(c) May's beauty.
(d) May's sanity.

5. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Athens.
(c) Pompeii.
(d) Rome.

6. 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) Listen to operas.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Go over opera passages.

7. What does the narrator say was the character of the only things that passed between May and John at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Notes and notations.
(b) Jibber and Jabber.
(c) Recalls and results.
(d) Facts and answers.

8. Why does John say May cannot simply be a mere confidant in Chapter 2?
(a) Because she is a woman.
(b) Because of her interest in his predicament.
(c) Because she doesn't trust him.
(d) Because he doesn't trust her.

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

10. 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) Amazing.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Wondrous.
(d) Exceptional.

11. Which of the following does John not imagine May does in regards to the home she is staying at in Chapter 1?
(a) The favorite haunts of the ghost.
(b) The authorship of the pictures.
(c) The color of the walls.
(d) The styles of the furniture.

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

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

14. What is John's last name?
(a) Firestone.
(b) Marcher.
(c) Bartram.
(d) Lewis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?

2. What does the narrator say began for John "in a thick cluster" and at the time when "the unexpected died out?"

3. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?

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

5. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"

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