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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. Complete this sentence: "Our habit saves you, at least, don't you see because it makes you, after all, for the ______, indistinguishable from other men."
(a) Vulgar.
(b) Better.
(c) Tempted.
(d) Worst.

2. Which of the following attributes does John say about May regarding her interest in his secret in Chapter 2?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Seriousness.
(d) Sympathy.

3. 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) Imaginary.
(b) Amazing.
(c) Exceptional.
(d) Wondrous.

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

5. What does May tell John is not repaid as time goes on in Chapter 2?
(a) His curiosity.
(b) His sadness.
(c) His worth.
(d) His happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What circumstance does John say was "in the lap of the gods" and "touched him so nearly?"

2. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?

3. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?

4. What does May say to John when he asks her how he could ever repay her keeping his secret in Chapter 3?

5. What does May say to John regarding his secret at the very end of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does May say John described his secret to her when they first met?

2. What type of things does the narrator describe May does with the guests of the luncheon in Chapter 1?

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

4. What does the narrator say the guests of the luncheon do after they have finished eating near the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. How does John describe the day he visited May for her birthday in Chapter 2?

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

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

8. What reasons does John give for taking May to the opera at the beginning of Chapter 3?

9. What is the nature of May and John's discussion regarding "the thing" near the end of Chapter 1?

10. How does May describe the day she and John met to him in Chapter 1?

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