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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Finish this sentence: "Assuredly--if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are _______."
(a) Caused.
(b) Thinkable.
(c) Possible.
(d) Happening.

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

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

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

6. What does John realize his escape would have been near the end of Chapter 6?
(a) To be alone.
(b) To eat.
(c) To die.
(d) To love May.

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

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

9. Where does John say he has lived in regards to his life in Chapter 6?
(a) On the bottom.
(b) On the top.
(c) Inside out.
(d) Outside of it.

10. What does John say his existence had grown strangely more of in Chapter 5?
(a) Spacious.
(b) Small.
(c) Large.
(d) Short.

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

12. What does the narrator say May sat without for the first time that year at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Her chair.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A fire.
(d) A blanket.

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

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. How many duels does the narrator imagine for John to have fought in Chapter 6?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John decide to do after May's funeral?

2. Complete this sentence: "You mean that it has come as a positive definite ______, with a name and a date."

3. What distinction does John believe he has that is a terrible truth to him?

4. What are the items of furniture in the room where May and John visit in Chapter 4?

5. Complete this sentence: "Ah you not being aware of it is the _________ in the strangeness."

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