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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 describe as the frugal way he finishes his evenings with May?

2. Finish this sentence: "You know you told me something I've never forgotten and that again and again has made me think of you since; it was that tremendously hot day when we went to Sorrento, across the bay, for the ________".

3. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?

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

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

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. How does John describe his "illumination" in regards to his secret in Chapter 6?

3. 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?

4. How does John describe May's nerves in Chapter 3?

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

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

7. What belief does John say he must live to believe in Chapter 6?

8. 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.

9. What does John do after he is turned away at May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?

10. How is May's grave described in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of egotism in the book. What repercussions came from egotistic behavior? What might the author be saying about those possessing an egotistic outlook?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the use of play imagery in the book. What purpose might the author have for presenting the story in such a way?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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