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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. The narrator says,"Pixies and flibbertigibbits haunt the budding woods" (332). What is in the woods?
(a) Tricky supernatural creatures and shallow, easily distracted people.
(b) Tricky supernatural creatures and people with evil intentions.
(c) Dangerous monsters and people with evil intentions.
(d) Dangerous monsters and shallow, easily distracted people.

2. Which of the following literary techniques is used in the title "The Marry Month of May"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. On page 334, the narrator refers to the "panoply" of Miss Coulson's "unthrilled bosom." What is the meaning of "panoply" in this context?
(a) An impressive array.
(b) Ceremonial clothing.
(c) Unemotional wisdom.
(d) A suit of armor.

4. What is implied about Miss Coulson when she looks at the flowers "with the eye of a botanist" (334)?
(a) She is curious.
(b) She is very intelligent.
(c) She is thinking of cutting them down.
(d) She is logical and unemotional.

5. What is the name of the servant who usually gives Mr. Coulson his medication?
(a) Marley.
(b) Foster.
(c) Treadwell.
(d) Higgins.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Coulson continues quoting the poem and mentions "a livelier iris," what does Mrs. Widdup think he is talking about? (333)

2. What is clear in the first interaction between Mr. Coulson, Miss Coulson, and Mrs. Widdup?

3. What are the "portières" that Miss Coulson is sitting near?

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

5. Miss Coulson has a "lorgnette" (334). What is a lorgnette?

(see the answer key)

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