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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. Where does Miss Coulson meet the iceman on the next morning?
(a) In the park across from the house.
(b) In the vacant lot next door.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the basement.

2. The story opens with the word "prithee" (332). What does this word mean in this context?
(a) I disapprove of this.
(b) Keep this information secret.
(c) Listen carefully.
(d) Please, I am begging you.

3. With which motif is Miss Coulson most identified?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Flowers.
(c) May.
(d) Ice.

4. 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?
(a) Female college professors.
(b) Schoolgirls.
(c) Lower-class college-aged women.
(d) Young women training to become school teachers.

5. What is the purpose of the allusion to the "virgin of Cologne" (334)?
(a) It characterizes Miss Coulson as cruel and selfish.
(b) It implies that Miss Coulson is uninterested in romantic love.
(c) It reminds the reader that Miss Coulson is very religious.
(d) It foreshadows later plot events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is implied about Miss Coulson when she looks at the flowers "with the eye of a botanist" (334)?

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

3. What does the narrator warn the reader to "never trust" (333)?

4. What information does Mrs. Widdup give Mr. Coulson that contradicts what Miss Coulson told him earlier?

5. What does the narrator call the "most potent weapons of insidious May" (334)?

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