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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 is Mrs. Widdup's job?
(a) Cook.
(b) Parlor maid.
(c) Housekeeper.
(d) Nurse.

2. Which of the following literary techniques is used in the title "The Marry Month of May"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. How does the narrator suggest the reader should respond to the poet who praises the month of May?
(a) With a punch in the eye.
(b) With laughter.
(c) With a poem that condemns May.
(d) With more accurate scientific information.

4. Which bird is Mr. Coulson said to be "elder brother" to in May?
(a) Turtle-dove.
(b) Chickadee.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Robin.

5. When Mr. Coulson is irritated, he complains that no one in the house does what?
(a) Listens to him when he speaks.
(b) Cares if he lives or dies.
(c) Attempts to entertain him.
(d) Responds when he rings for a servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Miss Coulson stands thinking at the window, to what insects does she mentally compare Mr. Coulson and Mrs. Widdup?

2. Why does Miss Coulson ask when Mrs. Widdup's vacation begins?

3. When Mr. Coulson continues quoting the poem and mentions "a livelier iris," what does Mrs. Widdup think he is talking about? (333)

4. Miss Coulson has a "lorgnette" (334). What is a lorgnette?

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

(see the answer key)

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