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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say May's whole attitude was in Chapter 2?
(a) A blessing.
(b) A virtual statement.
(c) A curse.
(d) A mirage.

2. Finish this sentence: "It isn't a question for you of conceiving, imagining, ______."
(a) Giving.
(b) Comparing.
(c) Dying.
(d) Living.

3. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?
(a) A thunderstorm.
(b) A sandstorm.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A monsoon.

4. What does May suggest what the narrator describes as "perhaps but the expectation--or at any rate the sense of danger, familiar to so many people?"
(a) Being sick.
(b) Dying.
(c) Having a family.
(d) Falling in love.

5. Which of the following items is not mentioned by the narrator as things the visitors of the house looked at near the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Treasures of all arts.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Heirlooms.
(d) Armoires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John have a "dreadful sense" of in Chapter 5?

2. What does May do during her visit with John to make her statement more "vivid" in Chapter 4?

3. Finish this sentence: "Assuredly--if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are _______."

4. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?

5. Complete this sentence: "I would _____ for you still--if I could."

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