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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does say he is John after May says she is impressed with his new attitude near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Heroic.
(d) Stupid.

2. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?
(a) Drab and bleek.
(b) Cheap and tawdry.
(c) Bright and colorful.
(d) Fine and intrinsic.

3. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"
(a) May.
(b) A mysterious fate.
(c) His lies.
(d) His past.

4. What circumstance does John say was "in the lap of the gods" and "touched him so nearly?"
(a) His buying a new home.
(b) May's new job.
(c) May's acquiring a house in London.
(d) His job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as "so numerous that guests could wander at their will?"

2. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?

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

4. Complete this sentence: "Our habit saves you, at least, don't you see because it makes you, after all, for the ______, indistinguishable from other men."

5. Finish this sentence: "There have been days when I though you were, only of course, there have been days when we have thought almost _______."

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