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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The attic.
(c) The grounds.
(d) The great rooms.

2. 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) Falling in love.
(b) Dying.
(c) Having a family.
(d) Being sick.

3. Complete this sentence: "God knows I don't want anything. It's only a question of the __________ that haunts me."
(a) Apprehension.
(b) Day.
(c) Nervousness.
(d) Act.

4. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"
(a) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) The truth.
(d) The present.

5. What was over the chimney in the room where John and May begin their conversation in Chapter 1?
(a) A cross.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A portrait.
(d) A wreath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?

2. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?

3. Where does John claim he first met May in Chapter 1?

4. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?

5. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."

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