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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 the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"
2. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?
3. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?
4. Finish this sentence: "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, _______."
5. What does the narrator say John kept up and felt very decently about in Chapter 3?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the nature of May and John's outings in London as described in Chapter 2?
2. How does John describe how his life would be in the absence of everything in Chapter 5?
3. How does John respond when May claims that her belief of his secret is only an idea in Chapter 4?
4. What does John say had become his occupation near the end of Chapter 5?
5. How does May respond when John asks her what was the very worst that could happen to him that day at the beginning of Chapter 4?
6. How is May's funeral described in Chapter 5?
7. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
8. How does John describe May's eyes in Chapter 4?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's use of point of view in the book. What reasons might he have for presenting the characters' point of view in this way?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the role of grief in the book. What does grief represent to the characters in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the concept of unrequited love in the book.
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