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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 the narrator say the items being perused by the visitors "almost made" the house?
(a) Magnificent.
(b) Famous.
(c) Haunted.
(d) Spoiled.

2. What is John's last name?
(a) Firestone.
(b) Marcher.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Bartram.

3. Finish this sentence: "You mean you feel how my obsession--poor old thing--may correspond to some possible ______."
(a) Occurrence.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Travesty.
(d) Reality.

4. What does John say caused the gap to fill up and supplied the missing link?
(a) May's voice.
(b) His secret.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Food.

5. When does John say his and May's friendship had "sprung into being" in Chapter 2?
(a) With her first glare.
(b) With her first word.
(c) With her first penetrating question.
(d) With her first smile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say an outlook geared towards talking about his secret with May would cause him to have?

2. Finish this sentence: "You know you told me something I've never forgotten and that again and again has made me think of you since; it was that tremendously hot day when we went to Sorrento, across the bay, for the ________".

3. What does May tell John is not repaid as time goes on in Chapter 2?

4. What "invoked, invited, encouraged, could give them, naturally, no more than it had?"

5. What words does the narrator use to describe the items being shown to the visitors of the house?

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