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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 took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?
2. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?
3. 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?"
4. What does May tell John she has a disorder of in Chapter 3?
5. What does John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does May say John described his secret to her when they first met?
2. 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.
3. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?
4. How are the "depths" between May and John described in Chapter 3?
5. How does May respond when John asks her what saved her in Chapter 3?
6. How does the narrator describe the speech between John and May at the beginning of Chapter 1?
7. What is the nature of John's realization in regards to passion in Chapter 6?
8. What is the nature of May and John's conversation at the end of Chapter 1 when she asks if he is afraid?
9. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
10. In what way does John describe his ownership of May's grave near the beginning of Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the nature of May's eyes in the book. What might her eyes be representative of to John?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in the book. Which character represents this the most?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the separation of John and May in Chapter 4. What significance does this separation hold?
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