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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Complete this sentence: "Ah you not being aware of it is the _________ in the strangeness."
(a) Love.
(b) Strangeness.
(c) Similarities.
(d) Oddity.

2. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
(a) To be rich.
(b) To be unhappy.
(c) To be alone.
(d) To not be anything.

3. Complete this sentence: "Only, you know, the form and the way in your case were to have been--well, something so _____ and, as one may say, so particularly your own."
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Wondrous.

4. What does John say his "jungle" has been thrashed to in Chapter 5?
(a) Vacancy.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Hollowness.

5. Which of the following people are not mentioned by John as being in May's chamber as she lay dying in Chapter 5?
(a) Relatives.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Doctors.
(d) The maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does John give for getting up from his seat in May's house in Chapter 5?

2. What is May always sitting next to when John comes to see her?

3. What does the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?

4. What is May's response to John when he asks her what is to happen to him at the end of Chapter 4?

5. In what city do May and John meet up in for their visits in Chapter 2?

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