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

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)?
(a) Most people blush on purpose.
(b) Mrs. Widdup may be faking her reaction to Mr. Coulson.
(c) In her excitement, Mrs. Widdup can barely breathe.
(d) Blushing happens when the diaphragm is contracted too forcefully.

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

4. Whom does the narrator refer to as "the venerable and scarcely suspecting victim of May" (334)?
(a) Mr. Coulson.
(b) The iceman.
(c) Mrs. Widdup.
(d) Miss Coulson.

5. What is comic about the turn of phrase "she withstood the attack of the ethereal mildness" (334)?
(a) The understatement of the danger.
(b) The contradiction in the terms "attack" and "ethereal mildness."
(c) The surprise ending to a well-known phrase.
(d) The idea that "mildness" could be "ethereal."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Miss Coulson's believe about love?

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

4. What illness does Mr. Coulson suffer from?

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

(see the answer key)

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