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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finish this sentence: "Assuredly--if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are _______."
(a) Thinkable.
(b) Happening.
(c) Caused.
(d) Possible.

2. What does John claim he was afraid of during his conversation with May in Chapter 4?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) Loneliness.

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

4. What does John believe May did to him in order to save him according to his thoughts in Chapter 5?
(a) Lied to him.
(b) Manipulated him.
(c) Loved him.
(d) Deceived him.

5. Where does John say he had wandered from in Chapter 6?
(a) Into the ocean.
(b) Center of the desert.
(c) Across the sea.
(d) Top of the mountain.

6. 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 they had been married.
(d) If she died.

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

8. Complete this sentence: "We've had together great __________, often great fears; but some of them have been unspoken."
(a) Imaginations.
(b) Talks.
(c) Memories.
(d) Times.

9. What does John say his "jungle" has been thrashed to in Chapter 5?
(a) Vacancy.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Hollowness.

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

11. What does John say had become "a strayed or stolen child to an unappeasable father" for him in Chapter 5?
(a) His sanity.
(b) The lost stuff of consciousness.
(c) His love.
(d) His secret.

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

13. What is May's response to John when he asks her what is to happen to him at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) "What might have been."
(b) "What will."
(c) "It has been done."
(d) "What was to".

14. How many duels does the narrator imagine for John to have fought in Chapter 6?
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

15. What does the narrator say May's name on her headstone did to John in Chapter 6?
(a) Silenced him.
(b) Smote him.
(c) Killed him.
(d) Hurt him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes into the room where May and John are having their conversation near the end of Chapter 4?

2. How long does John stay away during his travels?

3. What does John have a "dreadful sense" of in Chapter 5?

4. What occurrs to John at the beginning of Chapter 5, which never happened to him before?

5. Where does John say he has lived in regards to his life in Chapter 6?

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