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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?
2. When does John say his and May's friendship had "sprung into being" in Chapter 2?
3. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?
4. 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?"
5. What does John say he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say the guests of the luncheon do after they have finished eating near the beginning of Chapter 1?
2. How are the "depths" between May and John described in Chapter 3?
3. How is May's grave described in Chapter 6?
4. What is the nature of the exchange between John and May at the end of Chapter 4?
5. What does John say in regards to May being "out of it" in Chapter 4?
6. How does John react after learning of May's illness in Chapter 3?
7. 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?
8. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?
9. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
10. What does John do after he is turned away at May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the nature of John and May's dialogue in the book. What does their conversations with one another say about the nature of their relationship?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the character John Marcher in the book. What role might the author be hoping for this character to represent in terms of society in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Examine John's role as the watcher in the book. What downfalls came from this role? What purpose does the author have for presenting John in such a role?
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