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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impenetrable object is used to describe May as the picture of serenity and exquisiteness in Chapter 4?
(a) Giant.
(b) Sphinx.
(c) Monolith.
(d) Statue.

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

3. What is the first thing John asks May in regards to learning more about her opinion of his secret in Chapter 4?
(a) If he will be sad.
(b) If he will suffer.
(c) If he will find peace.
(d) If he will be happy.

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

5. What does John refer to as an "open page?"
(a) His house.
(b) The park.
(c) May's house.
(d) May's tomb.

6. What does John do after May tells him he will not suffer because of his secret?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He closes his eyes.
(c) He becomes flushed.
(d) He cries.

7. Finish this sentence: "It seems to me I liked it better present, as you say, than I can like it absent with your _________."
(a) Leaving.
(b) Absence.
(c) Longing.
(d) Away.

8. What reason does John give for getting up from his seat in May's house in Chapter 5?
(a) He couldn't combat his yearning.
(b) He was going to cry.
(c) He had to be somewhere.
(d) He didn't want to look at her.

9. How long does John stay away during his travels?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

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

11. 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 cough.
(d) A whisper.

12. Which of the following people are not mentioned by John as being in May's chamber as she lay dying in Chapter 5?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Relatives.
(d) The maid.

13. Who is described as "the creature beneath the sod?"
(a) John.
(b) John's conquests.
(c) May.
(d) The Beast.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does John not associate with the "Beast in the Jungle" in Chapter 5?

2. Where does John say he had wandered from in Chapter 6?

3. What does the narrator say is "never baffled" in Chapter 6?

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

5. Finish this sentence: "Why I thought it the point you were just making--that we had looked most things in the ______."

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