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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does John claim he first met May in Chapter 1?

3. Complete this sentence: "Not indeed that I in the least connect with my impression the _______ name you use".

4. Finish this sentence: "There have been days when I though you were, only of course, there have been days when we have thought almost _______."

5. What does John say was the reason he was at the house in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John describe the day he visited May for her birthday in Chapter 2?

2. What belief does John say he must live to believe in Chapter 6?

3. What is the nature of John and May's discussion after she tells him the thing he had been waiting for had come in Chapter 5?

4. How does May respond when John asks her what was the very worst that could happen to him that day at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

6. How does John describe his "illumination" in regards to his secret in Chapter 6?

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

8. How does John describe the nature of his and May's meeting at the beginning of Chapter 4?

9. What is John's reaction after seeing the other man in the cemetery in Chapter 6?

10. What is the nature of May and John's discussion regarding "the thing" near the end of Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's use of point of view in the book. What reasons might he have for presenting the characters' point of view in this way?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the nature of John and May's dialogue in the book. What does their conversations with one another say about the nature of their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the nature of the character May Bartram in the book. What role might the author be hoping for her to play in the book's overall theme?

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