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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. When Mr. Coulson is irritated, he complains that no one in the house does what?
(a) Cares if he lives or dies.
(b) Responds when he rings for a servant.
(c) Listens to him when he speaks.
(d) Attempts to entertain him.

2. With which motif is Miss Coulson most identified?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Wealth.
(c) May.
(d) Ice.

3. How old is Mrs. Widdup?
(a) 49.
(b) 35.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

4. How does Miss Coulson spend the afternoon after her conversation with her father about the cold?
(a) She reads a romance book.
(b) She works in the garden.
(c) She takes a long nap.
(d) She goes shopping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of clam is a "chowder-doomed clam" (332)?

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

3. What is implied about Miss Coulson when she looks at the flowers "with the eye of a botanist" (334)?

4. What is implied by Mr. Coulson's mention of Palm Beach?

5. What is the purpose of the allusion to the "virgin of Cologne" (334)?

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