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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May say to John when he asks her how he could ever repay her keeping his secret in Chapter 3?
(a) "We shall celebrate."
(b) "Go be happy and conspire."
(c) "By going on as you are."
(d) "Lets go off together happily."

2. Complete this sentence: "I see of course what you mean by your ____ me, in this way and that."
(a) Loving.
(b) Cursing.
(c) Helping.
(d) Saving.

3. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A portrait.
(c) A cross.
(d) A wreath.

4. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) May.
(b) His past.
(c) A mysterious fate.
(d) His lies.

5. Complete this sentence: "Only, you know, the form and the way in your case were to have been--well, something so _____ and, as one may say, so particularly your own."
(a) Amazing.
(b) Exceptional.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Wondrous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does John refer to May's waiting on telling him the nature of his secret as in Chapter 3?

2. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?

3. What does May ask John is in question for her after they begin discussing his secret near the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What does May tell the narrator she will do with him at the end of Chapter 1?

5. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of May and John's conversation at the end of Chapter 1 when she asks if he is afraid?

2. How is the setting of John and May's conversation in the house after the luncheon described in Chapter 1?

3. In what way does John say the "Beast" had "sprung" near the end of Chapter 6?

4. What does John say in regards to May being "out of it" in Chapter 4?

5. How does John describe his and May's last meeting in Chapter 5?

6. What is the nature of May and John's conversation when he asks her to reveal what she believes is his secret in Chapter 4?

7. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?

8. What belief does John say he must live to believe in Chapter 6?

9. What is the nature of May and John's outings in London as described in Chapter 2?

10. What is the nature of John's realization in regards to passion in Chapter 6?

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