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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. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) May.
(b) January.
(c) April.
(d) October.
2. What is John's last name?
(a) Marcher.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Firestone.
(d) Bartram.
3. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
(a) To not be anything.
(b) To be unhappy.
(c) To be rich.
(d) To be alone.
4. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?
(a) If he remembered their first meeting.
(b) If he loved her.
(c) If he was afraid.
(d) About their time in Italy.
5. What do May and John do together in Chapter 3 that reminds him of the question she wouldn't answer for him regarding his secret?
(a) Sing.
(b) Go over opera passages.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Listen to operas.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?
2. 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."
3. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?
4. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?
5. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?
Short Essay Questions
1. What belief does John say he must live to believe in Chapter 6?
2. What is the nature of John's pondering about the secret he has shared with May in Chapter 2?
3. How does John respond when May claims that her belief of his secret is only an idea in Chapter 4?
4. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?
5. How is the setting of John and May's conversation in the house after the luncheon described in Chapter 1?
6. How does the narrator describe the speech between John and May at the beginning of Chapter 1?
7. What does John say in regards to May being "out of it" in Chapter 4?
8. How is the short confrontation between John and the other man mourning in the cemetery described in Chapter 6?
9. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
10. How does John describe the day he visited May for her birthday in Chapter 2?
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