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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Marry Month of May".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim is the narrator making by calling humans "lineal scions of the pansy" (332)?
(a) Humans are the servants of nature.
(b) Humans and flowers are related through evolution.
(c) Plants and animals are just as valuable as humans.
(d) Pansies are more like humans than most people realize.

2. What kind of clam is a "chowder-doomed clam" (332)?
(a) One that is destined to be eaten in soup.
(b) One that is poisonous to humans.
(c) One that is personified as feeling worried.
(d) One that is confused by its surroundings.

3. Where does Miss Coulson meet the iceman on the next morning?
(a) In the basement.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) In the vacant lot next door.
(d) In the park across from the house.

4. Why does Mrs. Widdup go into Mr. Coulson's room in the afternoon on the second day of the story?
(a) She is concerned that he is all by himself.
(b) She needs to tell him that everyone else has left the house.
(c) She hears him ring for help.
(d) She wants him to finish what he was going to say on the day before.

5. What are the "portières" that Miss Coulson is sitting near?
(a) Curtains hung in the doorway.
(b) Hanging lamps.
(c) Window shutters.
(d) Wall hangings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years apart are Miss Coulson's and Mrs. Widdup's ages?

2. What is the implication of the passage "She blushed. Oh, yes, it can be done. Just hold your breath and compress the diaphragm" (333)?

3. What does the narrator call the "most potent weapons of insidious May" (334)?

4. What illness does Mr. Coulson suffer from?

5. Whom does the narrator refer to as "the venerable and scarcely suspecting victim of May" (334)?

(see the answer key)

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