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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. Complete this sentence: "Only, you know, the form and the way in your case were to have been--well, something so _____ and, as one may say, so particularly your own."
2. What kind of failure does the narrator say a "drop of dignity under the shadow" would become in Chapter 3?
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 is the one desire he has left at the end of Chapter 4?
5. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does John say the "Beast" had "sprung" near the end of Chapter 6?
2. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?
3. How does John describe the events that led to May receiving property from a deceased relative in Chapter 2?
4. What belief does John say he must live to believe in Chapter 6?
5. What does May say about dull women on her birthday in Chapter 2?
6. What is the nature of John's pondering about the secret he has shared with May in Chapter 2?
7. What is the nature of May and John's conversation at the end of Chapter 1 when she asks if he is afraid?
8. How is the setting of John and May's conversation in the house after the luncheon described in Chapter 1?
9. How does May respond when John asks her what saved her in Chapter 3?
10. How does John describe how his life would be in the absence of everything in Chapter 5?
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
Examine the use of light and dark imagery in the book. What purpose might the use of this type of imagery serve?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the separation of John and May in Chapter 4. What significance does this separation hold?
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