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

2. 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 visited friends.
(d) When she took out the trash.

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

4. How old does the narrator say he was when he met May for the first time?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 35.
(d) 20.

5. 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) Chore.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Habit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"

2. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?

3. What does John suggest had lost itself in the desert?

4. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"

5. What quality of May's does John claim she has "finer" than him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of John and May's discussion after she tells him the thing he had been waiting for had come in Chapter 5?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What is the nature of John's pondering about the secret he has shared with May in Chapter 2?

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

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

8. What is the nature of May and John's conversation at the end of Chapter 1 when she asks if he is afraid?

9. What is the nature of the first "surprise" mentioned by John after he has learned of May's illness in Chapter 3?

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

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