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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 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) Young women training to become school teachers.
(b) Lower-class college-aged women.
(c) Female college professors.
(d) Schoolgirls.

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

3. Which neighborhood does Mr. Coulson live in?
(a) Gramercy Park.
(b) Carnegie Hill.
(c) Chelsea.
(d) Lincoln Square.

4. What does Mr. Coulson call Mrs. Widdup when she starts talking about "ivy and hand-organs" (335)?
(a) Insane.
(b) "My dear."
(c) A fool.
(d) A romantic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What claim is the narrator making by calling humans "lineal scions of the pansy" (332)?

2. On page 334, the narrator refers to the "panoply" of Miss Coulson's "unthrilled bosom." What is the meaning of "panoply" in this context?

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

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

5. When "May holds up a chiding finger," (332), what is May's intention?

(see the answer key)

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