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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 he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?
2. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"
3. What do May and John do together in Chapter 3 that reminds him of the question she wouldn't answer for him regarding his secret?
4. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
5. Which of the following does John not imagine May does in regards to the home she is staying at in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does May describe the day she and John met to him in Chapter 1?
2. What is the nature of the exchange between John and May at the end of Chapter 4?
3. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
4. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?
5. How is May's grave described in Chapter 6?
6. What does May say about her and John's first meeting that causes him embarrassment in Chapter 1?
7. What is the nature of John and May's mood after he accuses her of doubting his fate in Chapter 2?
8. How does John describe the nature of his and May's meeting at the beginning of Chapter 4?
9. How is the short confrontation between John and the other man mourning in the cemetery described 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?
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
Discuss the role of grief in the book. What does grief represent to the characters in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the obsessive behavior exhibited by John in the book. What reasons can be given for his motivations for being so obsessive?
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