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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The store.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) The opera.
(d) The park.

2. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?
(a) It would kill her.
(b) It would lacerate her.
(c) It would haunt her.
(d) It would save her.

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

4. 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) Aptitude and chivalry.
(c) Mysterious appreciations and measurements.
(d) Grammar and good manners.

5. 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) "By going on as you are."
(c) "Go be happy and conspire."
(d) "Lets go off together happily."

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

7. 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 witch hunt.
(c) A soul search.
(d) A tiger hunt.

8. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?
(a) Bright and colorful.
(b) Fine and intrinsic.
(c) Drab and bleek.
(d) Cheap and tawdry.

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

10. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) "Is it soon?"
(b) "Are you afraid?"
(c) "Are you ready?"
(d) "Has it passed?"

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

12. 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) Play the piano.
(c) Go over opera passages.
(d) Sing.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John claim he first met May in Chapter 1?

2. What does John describe as the frugal way he finishes his evenings with May?

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

4. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"

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

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