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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
(a) Ned Lowell
(b) Charles Kingsley
(c) her older brother William
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

2. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Dorothy Wordsworth
(b) Emily Keats
(c) Lydia Shelly
(d) Mary Burns

3. Who was Mr. Webster?
(a) the cook at the Royal Hospital
(b) a servant at the Royal Hospital
(c) Lady Wolseley's nephew
(d) the MP, friend of Lady Wolseley and foe to Henry

4. What did Henry like about Holmes Jr.?
(a) his honesty and forthrightness
(b) his wordiness and bursts of sermon-like phrases
(c) his intellectuality and solemness
(d) his steadfast friendship

5. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) details about the cases he tried
(b) his thoughts about England
(c) whom he was in love with
(d) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War

6. Where was Henry's play held?
(a) Price Albert's Theatre
(b) Covent Gardens
(c) the Haymarket
(d) St. James Theatre

7. Who was Minny Temple?
(a) an imaginary character in one of Henry's novels
(b) Henry's cousin
(c) Wendell's cousin
(d) Wendell's girlfriend

8. How does Webster insult Henry at dinner?
(a) talks about the inferiority of homosexuals
(b) makes insulting remarks about Americans
(c) alludes to the low heritage of the James family
(d) puts down writers as fools

9. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?
(a) his eyes
(b) his hand
(c) his arm
(d) his foot

10. How did Henry like to be seen as a writer by people?
(a) as a writer who would be known as a genius in the future
(b) as a playwright not a novelist
(c) as a popular, rich success
(d) as a noble, selfless non-materialist devoted to his art

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

12. What was the name of the only child at the Hospital?
(a) Minny
(b) Marilyn
(c) Mona
(d) Mary

13. What did Hammond look like?
(a) He was tall and blond with blue eyes
(b) He was short with brown eyes and a beard
(c) He was medium height with green eyes and a mustache
(d) He was tall with brown eyes without a mustache or beard

14. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?
(a) Portrait of a Lady
(b) The Princess Casamassima
(c) The Bostonians
(d) Daisy Miller

15. What did Henry have to occupy his time with in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) writing columns for the London Times
(b) writing letters to his many friends
(c) showing friends and relatives around London
(d) visiting a sick friend daily

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

2. What did Henry like about Americans?

3. Who are the two relatives who appear in Henry's dream?

4. When did Henry James Senior die?

5. What does Lady Wolseley insinuate when assigning Hammond to serve Henry?

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