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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 is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?
(a) Weatherend.
(b) Fountainbleu.
(c) Terra.
(d) Le Manse.

2. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."
(a) Occurrence.
(b) Reality.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Travesty.

3. 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 picked up groceries.
(b) When she shopped for food.
(c) When she visited friends.
(d) When she took out the trash.

4. What does John say he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?
(a) Being whole.
(b) Being young.
(c) Being happy.
(d) Being lonely.

5. What does John ask to himself in regards to May's "appearance of variation from the usual human type?"
(a) "Is this right?"
(b) "What is the matter?"
(c) "What is it that saves you?"
(d) "Do you love me?"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What realization causes John's breath of good faith to come short in Chapter 3?

3. What does the narrator say John kept up and felt very decently about in Chapter 3?

4. Complete this sentence: "I see of course what you mean by your ____ me, in this way and that."

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does John say in regards to May being "out of it" in Chapter 4?

3. What is the nature of John's talk of time and fate near the end of Chapter 3?

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

5. In what way does John say the "Beast" had "sprung" near the end of Chapter 6?

6. How are the "depths" between May and John described in Chapter 3?

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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.

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