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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. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?
(a) Shudder.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Envy.
(d) Shock.

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

3. What does May ask John is in question for her after they begin discussing his secret near the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Her happiness.
(b) Her intimacy.
(c) Her sanity.
(d) Her sadness.

4. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A boundary.
(b) A mystic line.
(c) An imaginary line.
(d) A wall.

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) "Do you love me?"
(d) "What is it that saves you?"

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years does May say it has been since her first meeting with the narrator?

2. 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."

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

4. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does John describe May's eyes in Chapter 4?

3. How does May describe the day she and John met to him in Chapter 1?

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

5. How does May react after John learns he will not suffer because of his secret near the end of Chapter 4?

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

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

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

9. What is the nature of John's realization in regards to passion in Chapter 6?

10. 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?

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