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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: "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) Amazing.
(b) Exceptional.
(c) Wondrous.
(d) Imaginary.

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

3. 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) Play the piano.
(b) Sing.
(c) Go over opera passages.
(d) Listen to operas.

4. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"
(a) The dream of acquisition.
(b) A job.
(c) The hope of fortune.
(d) A family.

5. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?
(a) Mysterious appreciations and measurements.
(b) Aptitude and chivalry.
(c) Grammar and good manners.
(d) Baubles and jewels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does May tell John they actually met?

2. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?

3. 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 _____."

4. On what does John say he doesn't 't think a lady is meant to accompany him in Chapter 2?

5. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What does May say about her and John's first meeting that causes him embarrassment in Chapter 1?

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

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

8. How does May respond when John asks her what was the very worst that could happen to him that day at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

10. How is May's funeral described in Chapter 5?

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