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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the house John is visiting in Chapter 1?
(a) Le Manse.
(b) Fountainbleu.
(c) Weatherend.
(d) Terra.

2. What question does May ask the narrator three times at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) "Has it passed?"
(b) "Is it soon?"
(c) "Are you afraid?"
(d) "Are you ready?"

3. What does May say to John regarding his secret at the very end of Chapter 2?
(a) "You'll never find out."
(b) "It will be fine."
(c) "What do you think of this?"
(d) "It's going to be soon."

4. Which of the following does John not imagine May does in regards to the home she is staying at in Chapter 1?
(a) The authorship of the pictures.
(b) The styles of the furniture.
(c) The favorite haunts of the ghost.
(d) The color of the walls.

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) Armoires.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Heirlooms.

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

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

8. What quality of May's does John claim she has "finer" than him?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Her skin.
(c) Her nerves.
(d) Her compassion.

9. What does John say the rest of the world thought of him as, but that May understands?
(a) Strange.
(b) Queer.
(c) Odd.
(d) Silly.

10. What "excavation" does May say she and the narrator took "refuge" in when they first met?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Pompeii.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

11. What does John say he has never been for a moment in his life in Chapter 2?
(a) Happy.
(b) Calm.
(c) Sad.
(d) Settled.

12. 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 fox in the forest.
(c) A crouching beast in the jungle.
(d) A dog in the woods.

13. Why does John say May cannot simply be a mere confidant in Chapter 2?
(a) Because she is a woman.
(b) Because of her interest in his predicament.
(c) Because he doesn't trust her.
(d) Because she doesn't trust him.

14. What is May's last name?
(a) Thompson.
(b) Bartram.
(c) Sampson.
(d) Black.

15. To where does John often have May accompany him as revealed at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The park.
(b) The store.
(c) The opera.
(d) A restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say May's whole attitude was in Chapter 2?

2. How does John claim May would feel if she gave up on discovering his secret before she dies in Chapter 3?

3. What does John tell May he often wonders if it's fair in Chapter 2?

4. On what does John say he doesn't 't think a lady is meant to accompany him in Chapter 2?

5. What does May say to John when he asks her how he could ever repay her keeping his secret in Chapter 3?

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