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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 was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?
(a) A business meeting.
(b) A date.
(c) To meet a friend.
(d) A luncheon.

2. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?
(a) A sandstorm.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A thunderstorm.
(d) A monsoon.

3. What does John attribute as the reason for May being named the successor of her aunt's estate?
(a) Her high tone and high temper.
(b) Her warm heart.
(c) Her gumption.
(d) Her resilience.

4. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) His lies.
(b) May.
(c) His past.
(d) A mysterious fate.

5. Finish this sentence: "There have been days when I though you were, only of course, there have been days when we have thought almost _______."
(a) Everything.
(b) Anything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Something.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?

2. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?

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

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

5. What does May suggest what the narrator describes as "perhaps but the expectation--or at any rate the sense of danger, familiar to so many people?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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.

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

7. What does John say had become his occupation near the end of Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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