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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 event does John say made his and May's meetings more multiplied at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Her moving to the country.
(b) His losing his job.
(c) Her great-aunt's death.
(d) Her moving to his house.

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

3. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?
(a) Honest.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Content.

4. What does John say he felt that he had never felt before in Chapter 3?
(a) The dread in the thought of losing May.
(b) His lonliness.
(c) His lack of intimacy.
(d) His happiness.

5. Other than when May takes her aunt to town, what is the other occasion in which John is able to see her during their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) When she shopped for food.
(b) When she picked up groceries.
(c) When she took out the trash.
(d) When she visited friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?

2. What is May's last name?

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 cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"

5. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. What is John's reaction when May asks if it's her intimacy in question in Chapter 3?

4. How does John describe how his life would be in the absence of everything in Chapter 5?

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

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

7. How is the short confrontation between John and the other man mourning in the cemetery described in Chapter 6?

8. In what ways does John describe how his change from his old self is final and absolute in Chapter 5?

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

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

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