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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: March 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.
(a) intelligent
(b) boring
(c) sensitive
(d) blank

2. How did Alice behave when a young man came into the room?
(a) She became extremely flirtatious.
(b) She left the room immediately.
(c) She became garrulous, shrill and uneasy.
(d) She made a point of ignoring the young man.

3. In what century is the play set?
(a) sixteenth century
(b) seventeenth century
(c) eighteenth century
(d) nineteenth century

4. Where did Henry spend time that summer in Chapter 6?
(a) on a vist to America
(b) in Ireland
(c) in the villages of the Suffolk coast
(d) in Venice

5. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was a robust, happy girl.
(b) She was healthy and very athletic.
(c) She was in ill health but stoic.
(d) She was pretty but shallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry's father live on?

2. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?

3. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?

4. To whom does Henry introduce Constance in Florence?

5. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?

(see the answer key)

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