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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does James characterize the main character's fiancee?
(a) Diligent and devoted.
(b) Devious and disrespectable.
(c) Dashing but daft.
(d) Decent but dull.

2. What was terrible about the event John Marcher waited for?
(a) It would have broken him if it had happened.
(b) It had already happened, and it had already prevented great wealth for him.
(c) It consisted of nothing happening to him.
(d) It would have consisted of a great love if it had happened.

3. What is the young man, whom Dencombe sees approaching, doing?
(a) Reading a critical review of his book.
(b) Reading a letter.
(c) Discoursing to the young girl.
(d) Reading one of his books.

4. Which was NOT one of Mr. Besant's general laws of fiction?
(a) The author should write from experience.
(b) Stories should have a moral purpose.
(c) The story should be psychologically true if not literally true.
(d) Characters must be lifelike.

5. What does John Marcher realize about the event he was waiting for?
(a) He had been looking in all the wrong places.
(b) He was mistaken about it from the start.
(c) It was never going to happen.
(d) He was not worthy of it.

6. How does James characterize John Marcher's social life?
(a) He is always socializing.
(b) He travels as much as possible.
(c) He accepts invitations from time to time.
(d) He hardly ever goes out.

7. What does Eve Sedgwick suggest was John Marcher's real secret?
(a) His death.
(b) His bankruptcy.
(c) His pathological fears.
(d) His homosexuality.

8. Who is May Bartram?
(a) A teacher in the school John Marcher visited.
(b) A tourist.
(c) A guest in the country house John Marcher is touring.
(d) A student studying in the museum John Marcher was touring.

9. What does art thrive on, according to 'Art of Fiction'?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Real conflicts.
(c) Vision.
(d) Discussion.

10. How does the main character find out that Lady Bradeen's husband has discovered the affair with Captain Everard?
(a) By chance.
(b) By talking with Mrs. Jordan.
(c) By talking with another telegraph operator.
(d) By talking with Captain Everard.

11. Who haunts the house on jolly corner?
(a) The man Spencer Brydon could have been.
(b) Spencer Brydon's love for Miss Staverton.
(c) Spencer Brydon's former self.
(d) Spencer Brydon's father.

12. What assurance does Dr. Hugh give Dencombe?
(a) He will live forever.
(b) He will live a long time.
(c) He will be immortalized in his books.
(d) He will write another six books.

13. What does James say is more important than genius?
(a) Character.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Talent.
(d) Morality.

14. What does Dencombe say about his best books?
(a) They have not been written yet.
(b) They were his first.
(c) They are his last two books.
(d) He will never write them.

15. What is Dencombe's reaction to the package he has just received?
(a) He is grateful.
(b) He is bored.
(c) He is furious.
(d) He is thrilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James characterize the main character's feelings for her fiancee?

2. What warning does Miss Vernham give Dencombe?

3. What does John Marcher realize he should have done?

4. How does Spencer Brydon encounter the city he moves to at the beginning of 'Jolly Corner'?

5. Where does May Bartram think she has met John Marcher before?

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