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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 regarding his secret at the very end of Chapter 2?
(a) "It's going to be soon."
(b) "What do you think of this?"
(c) "You'll never find out."
(d) "It will be fine."

2. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?
(a) A monsoon.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A thunderstorm.
(d) A sandstorm.

3. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The opera.
(c) The park.
(d) The store.

4. Where does May tell John they actually met?
(a) Naples.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Florence.

5. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?
(a) Magnificent.
(b) Haunted.
(c) Famous.
(d) Spoiled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does John not mention regarding "the thing that waited" and it's jurisdiction to him in Chapter 3?

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

3. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?

4. What does John say he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?

5. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does May react after John learns he will not suffer because of his secret near the end of Chapter 4?

2. What does John do after he is turned away at May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What is the nature of John's talk of time and fate near the end of Chapter 3?

4. How are the "depths" between May and John described in Chapter 3?

5. What is the nature of John and May's discussion after she tells him the thing he had been waiting for had come in Chapter 5?

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

7. How does John describe May when she rises from her chair in Chapter 4?

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

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

10. How does John describe his and May's treatment of the subject of his secret in Chapter 3?

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