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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does John give for not wanting to question May about what she knows about his secret in Chapter 4?
(a) Because he doesn't want them to have an argument.
(b) Because he doesn't want to find out.
(c) Because he doesn't want to lose her.
(d) Because he is afraid to learn the truth.

2. Complete this sentence: "Did we ever dream, with all our dreams, that we should sit and _______ of thus."
(a) Discuss.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Dream.
(d) Talk.

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

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

5. What does John say he will profit extraordinarily little from in Chapter 5?
(a) May's fortune.
(b) May's death.
(c) His fortune.
(d) May's interest in him.

6. What does the narrator say John had known the world to be at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Dark and bleak.
(b) Hard and painful.
(c) Vulgar and vain.
(d) Happy and sad.

7. What possibility does John feel would be monstrous for May according to his thoughts in Chapter 4?
(a) If they had been married.
(b) If she died.
(c) If he died.
(d) If she made a mistake being his friend.

8. 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.

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

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

11. Complete this sentence: "Ah you not being aware of it is the _________ in the strangeness."
(a) Love.
(b) Oddity.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Similarities.

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

13. What does May do during her visit with John to make her statement more "vivid" in Chapter 4?
(a) Whispered.
(b) Rose from her chair.
(c) Yelled.
(d) Turned her back.

14. Complete the sentence: "I thought of _______ things, between which it was difficult to choose; and so must you have done."
(a) Fine.
(b) Dreadful.
(c) Horrible.
(d) Good.

15. What does John say had only been smothered, but still throbbed and could bleed?
(a) His ache.
(b) His heartache.
(c) His desire.
(d) His secret.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John say has never touched him in Chapter 6?

4. How many duels does the narrator imagine for John to have fought in Chapter 6?

5. 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?

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