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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does May tell John they actually met?
(a) Naples.
(b) Rome.
(c) Florence.
(d) Venice.

3. What is May always sitting next to when John comes to see her?
(a) A table.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Her maid.
(d) The fire.

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

5. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"
(a) The attic.
(b) The grounds.
(c) The great rooms.
(d) The kitchen.

6. 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) Better.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Tempted.
(d) Worst.

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

8. 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.

9. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 35.

10. 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) Recalls and results.
(b) Jibber and Jabber.
(c) Facts and answers.
(d) Notes and notations.

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

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

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

14. 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 tornado.
(b) A sandstorm.
(c) A monsoon.
(d) A thunderstorm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "You know you told me something I've never forgotten and that again and again has made me think of you since; it was that tremendously hot day when we went to Sorrento, across the bay, for the ________".

2. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."

3. What does John say he felt that he had never felt before in Chapter 3?

4. Other than when May takes her aunt to town, what is the other occasion in which John is able to see her during their visits in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator say John kept up and felt very decently about in Chapter 3?

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