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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the cemetery in which May was buried in London described in Chapter 5?
(a) Black and dreary.
(b) Dark and dank.
(c) White and ghostly.
(d) Great and grey.

2. Where does John sit after leaving May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) On a stool.
(b) In a chair,
(c) On a bench.
(d) On the ground.

3. What rises to John's lips when he remembers May praying that he not know the true nature of his beast?
(a) May's name.
(b) A moan.
(c) A whisper.
(d) A cough.

4. What does John say has never touched him in Chapter 6?
(a) Affection.
(b) Love.
(c) Passion.
(d) Sadness.

5. Where does John go after leaving May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A bar.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A park.
(d) His house.

6. How often does the narrator say John would visit May's grave?
(a) Every day.
(b) Every week.
(c) Every year.
(d) Every month.

7. Which of the following items are not mentioned by John as not being as sharp as his time with May in Chapter 6?
(a) His age.
(b) His wealth.
(c) His character.
(d) His dress.

8. Finish this sentence: "I haven't lived with a vain imagination, in the most besotted _________."
(a) Days.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Hours.
(d) Times.

9. What does the narrator say is "never baffled" in Chapter 6?
(a) One's doom.
(b) His love for May.
(c) His death.
(d) May's death.

10. What feature of May's is described with an "inconsequent sense" and being as beautiful as they were in her youth?
(a) Throat.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Lips.
(d) Face.

11. Complete this sentence: "Ah you not being aware of it is the _________ in the strangeness."
(a) Oddity.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Love.
(d) Strangeness.

12. What does John say May talked with the perfect straightness of in Chapter 5?
(a) A sibyl.
(b) A rod.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A dart.

13. Finish this sentence: "If you're glad of what it's not it might then have been _____."
(a) Better.
(b) Bad.
(c) Worse.
(d) Good.

14. Complete this sentence: "I would _____ for you still--if I could."
(a) Try.
(b) Die.
(c) Live.
(d) Be.

15. What does the narrator say May's grave was John's one witness to in Chapter 6?
(a) His one home.
(b) His heart.
(c) A past glory.
(d) His demise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say John had known the world to be at the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. What does John do after May tells him he will not suffer because of his secret?

3. What does John believe May did to him in order to save him according to his thoughts in Chapter 5?

4. What distinction does John believe he has that is a terrible truth to him?

5. What does May do when John places his hand on the arm of her chair in Chapter 5?

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