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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Marry Month of May".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "portières" that Miss Coulson is sitting near?
(a) Window shutters.
(b) Wall hangings.
(c) Hanging lamps.
(d) Curtains hung in the doorway.

2. What does the narrator call the "most potent weapons of insidious May" (334)?
(a) Birds.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Sunny days.
(d) Warm breezes.

3. What point is made through the juxtaposition of Mr. Coulson's and Mrs. Widdup's comments about springtime?
(a) There is a significant gap in their education and social classes.
(b) They have very different points of view about springtime.
(c) Mrs. Widdup does not return Mr. Coulson's affections.
(d) Mrs. Widdup is a much more emotional person than Mr. Coulson is.

4. What is implied about Miss Coulson when she looks at the flowers "with the eye of a botanist" (334)?
(a) She is curious.
(b) She is very intelligent.
(c) She is thinking of cutting them down.
(d) She is logical and unemotional.

5. On the final morning of the story, what causes Mr. Coulson's mood to change?
(a) Mrs. Widdup has threatened to quit.
(b) It is warm again and the windows are open.
(c) He is in much less pain than usual.
(d) Miss Coulson has told him that he is behaving badly.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says,"Pixies and flibbertigibbits haunt the budding woods" (332). What is in the woods?

2. Who is the author of "The Marry Month of May"?

3. What is the implication of the passage "She blushed. Oh, yes, it can be done. Just hold your breath and compress the diaphragm" (333)?

4. What does Miss Coulson's believe about love?

5. What is the purpose of the allusion to the "virgin of Cologne" (334)?

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