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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. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."
2. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?
3. After May reveals her illness to John, he says he felt the shadow of a change and the chill of a what?
4. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?
5. What does the narrator say cast "the long shadow in which he had lived" and had "almost no margin left?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the nature of John's realization in regards to passion in Chapter 6?
2. What is the nature of John and May's mood after he accuses her of doubting his fate in Chapter 2?
3. How does John describe the day he visited May for her birthday in Chapter 2?
4. How is May's grave described in Chapter 6?
5. How does John react after learning of May's illness in Chapter 3?
6. What does John do after he is turned away at May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?
7. Describe John's opinion of May after she reveals that she doesn't know the true nature of his secret but rather what it is not in Chapter 5.
8. How does John describe May's eyes in Chapter 4?
9. How does May react after John learns he will not suffer because of his secret near the end of Chapter 4?
10. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the nature of the character May Bartram in the book. What role might the author be hoping for her to play in the book's overall theme?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the nature of May's illness in the book. What role did her illness have in John's self-discovery?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the separation of John and May in Chapter 4. What significance does this separation hold?
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