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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 is the last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?
(a) Williams.
(b) Boyer.
(c) Brennan.
(d) Johnston.

2. In what way does John refer to May's waiting on telling him the nature of his secret as in Chapter 3?
(a) Vile.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Vain.
(d) Horrible.

3. What does John suggest had lost itself in the desert?
(a) His fear.
(b) His secret.
(c) May's beauty.
(d) May's sanity.

4. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Sanity.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Egotism.

5. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."
(a) Happy.
(b) Successful.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Real.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of failure does the narrator say a "drop of dignity under the shadow" would become in Chapter 3?

2. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?

3. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?

4. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?

5. What does the narrator say began for John "in a thick cluster" and at the time when "the unexpected died out?"

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John describe the events that led to May receiving property from a deceased relative in Chapter 2?

2. Describe John's opinion of May after she reveals that she doesn't know the true nature of his secret but rather what it is not in Chapter 5.

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

4. How does the narrator describe the speech between John and May at the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. How does May respond when John asks if she thinks he is afraid near the end of Chapter 2?

6. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?

7. How does John describe seeing the Beast and how does he react to this at the end of Chapter 6?

8. What does John say had become his occupation near the end of Chapter 5?

9. How does John react towards May when she asks him if he remembers the nature of their conversation the first time they met in Italy?

10. How does John respond when May claims that her belief of his secret is only an idea in Chapter 4?

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