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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say "lay in wait for him, amid the twists and the turns of the months and the years" in Chapter 2?
(a) A shark in the ocean.
(b) A crouching beast in the jungle.
(c) A dog in the woods.
(d) A fox in the forest.

2. What is described as "a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be?"
(a) A family.
(b) A job.
(c) The hope of fortune.
(d) The dream of acquisition.

3. What does the book say May had secretly drawn around her near the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A mystic line.
(b) A boundary.
(c) An imaginary line.
(d) A wall.

4. 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 not be anything.
(d) To be alone.

5. Complete this sentence: "We've had together great __________, often great fears; but some of them have been unspoken."
(a) Imaginations.
(b) Memories.
(c) Times.
(d) Talks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occasional warning is John visited by at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. How is May's chair described in Chapter 3?

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

4. What did May "talk of" that John found "deepened the strangeness to see her" in Chapter 4?

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

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