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A small volume of English verse containing Chaucer and Spenser
Small volumes of English verse
What type of book set did Johnnie have?
She didn't want to see Stoddard
She had an appointment
Why did Johnnie not want to return the books in the afternoon?
Deanie
Stoddard's
Stoddard
Whose books did Johnnie keep and reread?
No
Yes
Did the main character meet the person who brought her the books when she returned them?
Return the books
Read the books
What did Johnnie not want to do because she could not bear it?
She hoped to see him
Sick children
Deanie was sick
She forgot them
What caused Johnnie to have to return the books in person to Stoddard?
Made them into a neat package
Dressed in her nicest clothes
She wrapped them in a neat package and planned to carry them to the Mill and place them on Stoddard's desk
What preparations did Johnnie take to return the books to Stoddard?
No
Yes
Did the main character originally keep stories by Chaucer after the others had all gone back?
Returning the books she still had
Throwing the books away
What would the main character consider giving up a part of herself?
Reread them
She couldn't bring herself to return them because she loved them so much
She read them
They were gifts
Why did Johnnie keep the books?
He asked for them back
They did not belong to her
The handwritten notes annotating the verses seemed intimate each time she passed her fingers over the text
Since the books were given more as a gift than as a loan, why would Johnnie feel the need to return the books to Stoddard?
She was afraid
She could not bear to give them back as she treasured them and felt they were a part of herself
They were a part of her
Why did Johnnie not want to return the books?
She would sit with them and just stare at the images
Pass her fingers over them
Write in them
Stare at them
At times Johnnie would read the books but what else would she do with the books?
Johnnie
Stoddard
Who wrote in the books' margins?
No
Yes
Yes. She tried returning them early when no one was in the office but ended up running into Stoddard
Did Johnnie return the books to Stoddard?
Lost the books
Returning the books
What did Johnnie do that made her feel like she was giving up part of herself?
She felt as if she would be giving up a part of herself
She didn't want to see Stoddard again
She knew them by heart
Even though she knew the poems by heart she liked to sit holding the books remembering the joy in reading the poems and handwritten annotations
Why could Johnnie not bear to return the books?
The children were sick
Deanie was half sick
She couldn't bear to do it earlier
Why did the main character take in her books at noon instead of earlier?
A set of small English verse books
Paper
Small volumes of English verse
Pencils
What did Johnnie keep after returning the other ones?
The little books
Small volumes of English verse
School books
In what books were the words from Chaucer and Spenser?
Fiction stories
Small volumes of English verse
A set of small volumes of annotated English verse
Which of the books loaned by Stoddard did Johnnie keep above all of the loaned books?
Like she was giving up part of herself
Relieved
Elated
She felt as if she would be giving up a part of herself
Miserable
How did Johnnie feel when she finally decides to return the books to the office?
Read them over and over
Caress them
Burned them
Sit with them open, but not read
What did Johnnie do with the books instead of returning them?
Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.  She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.  She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.  It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.  She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.  She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.  Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.  Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.  Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself. 