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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 May claim is the only thing that concerns her after she and John begin discussing his secret in Chapter 3?
2. Where does John say he took May during their visits in Chapter 2?
3. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
4. Complete this sentence: "I don't know why it shouldn't make me _________, which is what we're speaking of as right as it makes you."
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the nature of May and John's outings in London as described in Chapter 2?
2. How is the short confrontation between John and the other man mourning in the cemetery described in Chapter 6?
3. What does the narrator say the guests of the luncheon do after they have finished eating near the beginning of Chapter 1?
4. How does John describe May's nerves in Chapter 3?
5. What is the nature of John's pondering about the secret he has shared with May in Chapter 2?
6. How does John respond when May claims that her belief of his secret is only an idea in Chapter 4?
7. How does John describe his and May's treatment of the subject of his secret in Chapter 3?
8. Describe John's presence at May's grave at the end of Chapter 5.
9. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?
10. How does John describe the nature of his and May's meeting at the beginning of Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of grief in the book. What does grief represent to the characters in the book?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the author's use of realism in the book. Was this a successful method?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the use of play imagery in the book. What purpose might the author have for presenting the story in such a way?
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