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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 John ask May if she remembered asking him when they had met at Weatherend for the first time?
(a) If he was afraid.
(b) About their time in Italy.
(c) If he loved her.
(d) If he remembered their first meeting.

2. What does May tell John she has a disorder of in Chapter 3?
(a) Lungs.
(b) Heart.
(c) Blood.
(d) Brain.

3. What does John ask to himself in regards to May's "appearance of variation from the usual human type?"
(a) "Is this right?"
(b) "Do you love me?"
(c) "What is it that saves you?"
(d) "What is the matter?"

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

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

3. What does the narrator say the guests who "took such matters with the last seriousness" give themselves up to in Chapter 1?

4. What quality of May's does John claim she has "finer" than him?

5. Where does May tell John they actually met?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the speech between John and May at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. What is John's opinion of marrying May?

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

4. In what way does John describe his ownership of May's grave near the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. What does John do after he is turned away at May's house at the beginning of Chapter 5?

6. What reasons does John give for taking May to the opera at the beginning of Chapter 3?

7. How does John describe May's eyes in Chapter 4?

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

9. How does May respond when John asks her what saved her in Chapter 3?

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

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