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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say John was dependent on after he decides to live in Chapter 6?
(a) His loneliness.
(b) An identity.
(c) May.
(d) His fortune.

2. What are the items of furniture in the room where May and John visit in Chapter 4?
(a) Two blue Dresden and a chair.
(b) A French clock and two rosy Dresden.
(c) A table and clock.
(d) A chair and sofa.

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

4. What does May tell John he takes for granted in Chapter 5?
(a) His feelings.
(b) His love.
(c) Her feelings.
(d) His fortune.

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

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

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

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

9. What does John say were "washed like figures traced in the sea-sand?"
(a) May's love for him.
(b) Ideas about his secret.
(c) His love for May.
(d) His passion for life.

10. What does John decide to visit just before leaving in Chapter 5?
(a) A bar.
(b) May's house.
(c) A park.
(d) May's grave.

11. What does John fling himself on at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) A rose bush.
(b) May's grave.
(c) A bench.
(d) A tree stump.

12. What does John say that causes May to say "don't, don't" in Chapter 5?
(a) "I die."
(b) "I suffer."
(c) "I don't care."
(d) "So be it."

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

14. Complete this sentence: "You mean that it has come as a positive definite ______, with a name and a date."
(a) Certainty.
(b) Occurrence.
(c) Time.
(d) Chance.

15. What does the narrator say always "reigned" in regards to May's home in Chapter 4?
(a) New items.
(b) High quality.
(c) Food.
(d) Household care.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell May he could "face" if he knew her idea of what his secret is in Chapter 4?

2. What does John refer to as an "open page?"

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

4. What does May touch near her chimney before becoming ill near the end of Chapter 4?

5. What possibility does John feel would be monstrous for May according to his thoughts in Chapter 4?

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