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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does John say is a bigger failure than to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried or hanged?
(a) To not be anything.
(b) To be rich.
(c) To be unhappy.
(d) To be alone.

4. Finish this sentence: "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and woman whose friendship has become such a daily _____."
(a) Habit.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Chore.
(d) Routine.

5. What event does John say made his and May's meetings more multiplied at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) His losing his job.
(b) Her moving to his house.
(c) Her moving to the country.
(d) Her great-aunt's death.

6. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?
(a) To meet a friend.
(b) A date.
(c) A business meeting.
(d) A luncheon.

7. What does the narrator say began for John "in a thick cluster" and at the time when "the unexpected died out?"
(a) Agony.
(b) Surprises.
(c) Lies.
(d) Secrets.

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

9. During what month does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) January.
(b) October.
(c) April.
(d) May.

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

11. What does John say is the one desire he has left at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) To be alone.
(b) That he shouldn't have been sold.
(c) To be rich.
(d) To be happy.

12. 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."
(a) Better.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Tempted.
(d) Worst.

13. What does John say he had no sense of when time and fate acted on him?
(a) Being whole.
(b) Being lonely.
(c) Being young.
(d) Being happy.

14. 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.

15. 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) Pictures.
(b) Heirlooms.
(c) Treasures of all arts.
(d) Armoires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last name of the family May says she was staying with when she met the narrator?

2. What does John say he took the measurement of in the interest of his and May's nerves in Chapter 3?

3. What does May refer to John's secret as to him in Chapter 2?

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

5. What type of speech does the narrator say "he saw in this no vulgar reminder of" regarding his conversation with May?

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