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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does May say to John when he asks her how he could ever repay her keeping his secret in Chapter 3?
(a) "By going on as you are."
(b) "Lets go off together happily."
(c) "We shall celebrate."
(d) "Go be happy and conspire."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John say May cannot simply be a mere confidant in Chapter 2?

2. In what way does John refer to May's waiting on telling him the nature of his secret as in Chapter 3?

3. What does May say was the "incident" that caused her to "seek refuge" when she had met the narrator for the first time?

4. What does John say "opened his mouth betimes" and "would count a compensation and profit?"

5. Where does John say he took May during their visits in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of May and John's conversation at the end of Chapter 1 when she asks if he is afraid?

2. How does John say he feels about May spending so much of her life concerned with his secret in Chapter 3?

3. What does John say in regards to May being "out of it" in Chapter 4?

4. What does John say had become his occupation near the end of Chapter 5?

5. What is the nature of John and May's conversation regarding his being able to face "the worst of it" in Chapter 4?

6. Describe John's presence at May's grave at the end of Chapter 5.

7. What is the nature of John's realization in regards to passion in Chapter 6?

8. How does May describe the day she and John met to him in Chapter 1?

9. What is the nature of the exchange between John and May at the end of Chapter 4?

10. How is May's grave described in Chapter 6?

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