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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 the first indication that Mrs. Widdup does not listen carefully?
(a) She does not pay attention to how much medication she is supposed to give Mr. Coulson.
(b) She interrupts Mr. Coulson when he is speaking.
(c) She does not respond to the question that Mr. Coulson asks her.
(d) She thinks that Mr. Coulson is telling her about his feelings for another woman.

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

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

4. When "May holds up a chiding finger," (332), what is May's intention?
(a) To indicate a direction.
(b) To indicate a pause.
(c) To scold.
(d) To indicate the "first" of something.

5. What does Miss Coulson's believe about love?
(a) That it is overpowering.
(b) That it is a pretense.
(c) That it is humiliating.
(d) That it is inconvenient.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator suggest the reader should respond to the poet who praises the month of May?

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

3. How many years apart are Miss Coulson's and Mrs. Widdup's ages?

4. What does Mr. Coulson call Mrs. Widdup when she starts talking about "ivy and hand-organs" (335)?

5. With which motif is Miss Coulson most identified?

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