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

2. What does John say he is afraid he has spent his whole life thinking of in Chapter 4?
(a) Bad thoughts.
(b) Only himself.
(c) Other people.
(d) Dreadful things.

3. What occurrs to John at the beginning of Chapter 5, which never happened to him before?
(a) He didn't go to May's house.
(b) He went to the park.
(c) He wasn't able to visit May.
(d) May came to his house.

4. During what month does John visit May at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) August.
(b) April.
(c) May.
(d) June.

5. Where does John say his time with May moved him more than his impressions of?
(a) Africa and Asia.
(b) England and France.
(c) Italy and Persia.
(d) India and Egypt.

6. What does May do when John places his hand on the arm of her chair in Chapter 5?
(a) Pushes it away.
(b) Holds it.
(c) Kisses it.
(d) Puts her hand on his.

7. What does John have a "dreadful sense" of in Chapter 5?
(a) His sanity.
(b) May's health.
(c) Standing before May for the last time.
(d) His loneliness.

8. What two words are used to describe the light in May's eyes in Chapter 4?
(a) Hard and bright.
(b) Frozen and colorful.
(c) Dark and dank.
(d) Strange and cold.

9. What possibility does John feel would be monstrous for May according to his thoughts in Chapter 4?
(a) If he died.
(b) If she made a mistake being his friend.
(c) If she died.
(d) If they had been married.

10. Complete this sentence: "Did we ever dream, with all our dreams, that we should sit and _______ of thus."
(a) Talk.
(b) Discuss.
(c) Dream.
(d) Laugh.

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

12. What does the narrator say May sat without for the first time that year at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A fire.
(b) A blanket.
(c) Her chair.
(d) A scarf.

13. Why does John say he wouldn't make it known that May had been watching him in Chapter 5?
(a) Because he was ashamed.
(b) Because it would have brought attention to the Beast.
(c) Because she would want it that way.
(d) Because he was scared.

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

15. Complete the sentence: "I thought of _______ things, between which it was difficult to choose; and so must you have done."
(a) Good.
(b) Fine.
(c) Dreadful.
(d) Horrible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "It isn't a question for you of conceiving, imagining, ______."

2. Finish this sentence: "Assuredly--if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are _______."

3. What does John decide to visit just before leaving in Chapter 5?

4. Complete the sentence: "What do you regard as the very worst that at this time of day can ______ to me."

5. What impenetrable object is used to describe May as the picture of serenity and exquisiteness in Chapter 4?

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