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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 does the narrator warn the reader to "never trust" (333)?
(a) Warm breezes.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Hyacinths.
(d) May.

2. Why does Mrs. Widdup go into Mr. Coulson's room in the afternoon on the second day of the story?
(a) She needs to tell him that everyone else has left the house.
(b) She hears him ring for help.
(c) She wants him to finish what he was going to say on the day before.
(d) She is concerned that he is all by himself.

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

4. What is the purpose of the allusion to the "virgin of Cologne" (334)?
(a) It implies that Miss Coulson is uninterested in romantic love.
(b) It reminds the reader that Miss Coulson is very religious.
(c) It characterizes Miss Coulson as cruel and selfish.
(d) It foreshadows later plot events.

5. What claim is the narrator making by calling humans "lineal scions of the pansy" (332)?
(a) Humans are the servants of nature.
(b) Plants and animals are just as valuable as humans.
(c) Pansies are more like humans than most people realize.
(d) Humans and flowers are related through evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Coulson asks for his "aconite," what is he asking for (333)?

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

3. When Mr. Coulson is irritated, he complains that no one in the house does what?

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

5. With which motif is Miss Coulson most identified?

(see the answer key)

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