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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does it say John traveled to during his travels in Chapter 6?
(a) France.
(b) Asia.
(c) Italy.
(d) Africa.

3. What did May "talk of" that John found "deepened the strangeness to see her" in Chapter 4?
(a) Vulgarity.
(b) Love.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Horrors.

4. Which of the following items are not mentioned by John when visiting May's grave makes him feel like a contented landlord in Chapter 6?
(a) Plot of ground.
(b) Tended flowers.
(c) Graven tablet.
(d) Green grass.

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

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

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

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

9. How long does John stand at the object he visits at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 1 day.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 2 hours.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say had only been smothered, but still throbbed and could bleed?

2. What does John say were "numberless enough" and a "thick cold mist?"

3. What does John say his existence had grown strangely more of in Chapter 5?

4. What does John say were "washed like figures traced in the sea-sand?"

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

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