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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 question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) "Are you afraid?"
(b) "Has it passed?"
(c) "Is it soon?"
(d) "Are you ready?"

2. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Real.
(c) Successful.
(d) Happy.

3. What quality of May's does John claim she has "finer" than him?
(a) Her compassion.
(b) Her heart.
(c) Her skin.
(d) Her nerves.

4. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Madrid.
(d) London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?

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 _____."

3. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?

4. What does the narrator say was the character of the only things that passed between May and John at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?

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

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

4. Describe John's presence at May's grave at the end of Chapter 5.

5. 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?

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

7. How does John react after learning of May's illness in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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