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

2. What does the narrator call the "most potent weapons of insidious May" (334)?
(a) Warm breezes.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Sunny days.
(d) Birds.

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

4. Why is Mr. Coulson so clumsy on the afternoon after the ice is delivered?
(a) He is upset because of the cold.
(b) He is angry at Miss Coulson's meddling.
(c) He is frustrated that he has not yet been able to confess his feelings to Mrs. Widdup.
(d) He is nervous about speaking to Mrs. Widdup.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator suggest the reader should respond to the poet who praises the month of May?

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

3. Who is the author of "The Marry Month of May"?

4. What information does Mrs. Widdup give Mr. Coulson that contradicts what Miss Coulson told him earlier?

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

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