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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes into the room where May and John are having their conversation near the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A cat.
(b) A dog.
(c) May's maid.
(d) May's cousin.

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

3. 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) Tended flowers.
(b) Plot of ground.
(c) Graven tablet.
(d) Green grass.

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

5. What does John say was an oddity in regards to his nervousness in Chapter 4?
(a) That he was not more nervous.
(b) That it came before his doubts.
(c) That is came at all.
(d) That he was less nervous than he had thought.

6. What kind of stare does the man in mourning give John in Chapter 6?
(a) Haunting and dreary.
(b) Ominous.
(c) Sad.
(d) Immediate and vague.

7. Finish this sentence: "It isn't a question for you of conceiving, imagining, ______."
(a) Giving.
(b) Living.
(c) Dying.
(d) Comparing.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does John say his illumination of his love for May blazed to in Chapter 6?
(a) The diamond.
(b) The onyx.
(c) The sphinx.
(d) The zenith.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John say he will profit extraordinarily little from in Chapter 5?

4. What is the first thing John asks May in regards to learning more about her opinion of his secret in Chapter 4?

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

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