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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. How does the narrator suggest the reader should respond to the poet who praises the month of May?
(a) With more accurate scientific information.
(b) With a punch in the eye.
(c) With laughter.
(d) With a poem that condemns May.
2. What are the details about the iceman's sleeves and hat intended to convey?
(a) He is conceited and self-absorbed.
(b) He has lower-class manners.
(c) He is trying to show respect for Miss Coulson.
(d) He thinks that Miss Coulson may be in love with him.
3. What claim is the narrator making by calling humans "lineal scions of the pansy" (332)?
(a) Pansies are more like humans than most people realize.
(b) Humans and flowers are related through evolution.
(c) Plants and animals are just as valuable as humans.
(d) Humans are the servants of nature.
4. When the narrator lists the kinds of inappropriate relationships that May encourages, one of the items in the list is "old chaps" who dress up and "parade in front of the Normal School" (332). Who are these old men trying to impress with their fancy clothing?
(a) Lower-class college-aged women.
(b) Young women training to become school teachers.
(c) Female college professors.
(d) Schoolgirls.
5. What physical gesture of affection does Mr. Coulson make toward Mrs. Widdup?
(a) He holds her hand.
(b) He strokes her hair.
(c) He kisses her.
(d) He touches her arm.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the "twist" at the end of this story?
2. When the author compares May to Circe and explains the comparison at length, what literary technique is he using?
3. What is comic about the turn of phrase "she withstood the attack of the ethereal mildness" (334)?
4. What is the name of the servant who usually gives Mr. Coulson his medication?
5. When Mr. Coulson is irritated, he complains that no one in the house does what?
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