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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 the narrator say John kept up and felt very decently about in Chapter 3?
(a) May's health.
(b) His unselfishness.
(c) His future.
(d) May's future.

2. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."
(a) Routine.
(b) Habit.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Chore.

3. What does John say May's whole attitude was in Chapter 2?
(a) A curse.
(b) A blessing.
(c) A virtual statement.
(d) A mirage.

4. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Pompeii.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

5. Finish this sentence: "You know you told me something I've never forgotten and that again and again has made me think of you since; it was that tremendously hot day when we went to Sorrento, across the bay, for the ________".
(a) Harbor.
(b) Breeze.
(c) Light.
(d) Sunset.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John say is the one desire he has left at the end of Chapter 4?

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

5. Which of the following attributes does John say about May regarding her interest in his secret in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is May's grave described in Chapter 6?

3. How does John describe the nature of his and May's meeting at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. What is the nature of May's speech to John after he asks if the reveal of his secret had passed him by in Chapter 5?

5. Describe the interaction between John and May when he believes she is not telling him something regarding the "Beast" at the end of Chapter 2.

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

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

8. How does John describe May's nerves in Chapter 3?

9. What does May say about dull women on her birthday in Chapter 2?

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

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