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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. The narrator says,"Pixies and flibbertigibbits haunt the budding woods" (332). What is in the woods?
(a) Dangerous monsters and people with evil intentions.
(b) Dangerous monsters and shallow, easily distracted people.
(c) Tricky supernatural creatures and people with evil intentions.
(d) Tricky supernatural creatures and shallow, easily distracted people.

2. How many years apart are Miss Coulson's and Mrs. Widdup's ages?
(a) 5.
(b) They are the same age.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

3. What kind of clam is a "chowder-doomed clam" (332)?
(a) One that is confused by its surroundings.
(b) One that is personified as feeling worried.
(c) One that is destined to be eaten in soup.
(d) One that is poisonous to humans.

4. Where Mr. Coulson is sitting, two main smells are "battling": the smell of flowers and what other smell?
(a) The musty smell of Mr. Coulson's room.
(b) The medicine on Mr. Coulson's skin.
(c) Mr. Coulson's strong cologne.
(d) Mr. Coulson's uneaten breakfast.

5. Which neighborhood does Mr. Coulson live in?
(a) Chelsea.
(b) Gramercy Park.
(c) Carnegie Hill.
(d) Lincoln Square.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Miss Coulson spend the afternoon after her conversation with her father about the cold?

3. Which of the following literary techniques is used in the title "The Marry Month of May"?

4. According to the narrator, what does May want humans to remember?

5. When the narrator lists the kinds of inappropriate relationships that May encourages, one of the items in the list is "old chaps" who dress up and "parade in front of the Normal School" (332). Who are these old men trying to impress with their fancy clothing?

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