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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Strether accustomed to taking his meals?
(a) The salle-a-manger.
(b) A local bar.
(c) The café near Chad's apartment.
(d) The living room.

2. What does Maria Gostrey say to Strether concerning his last visit to Madame de Vionnet?
(a) Madame de Vionnet feels she has lost Strether.
(b) Madame de Vionnet loves Bilham.
(c) Madame de Vionnet had a grudge against Strether.
(d) Madame de Vionnet loves Waymarsh.

3. What does Sarah tell Strether about Chad's development in Book 11?
(a) It is hideous.
(b) It is unfortunate.
(c) It is inspiring.
(d) It is favorable.

4. What does Strether tells Bilham in Chapter 10?
(a) That he is finding it hard to bond with Chad.
(b) That he will leave him every penny he has.
(c) That he loves him like a son.
(d) That he plans to remain in Paris.

5. What does Strether ask Waymarsh in Book 9?
(a) Why Sarah married Jim.
(b) If he loves Sarah.
(c) Whether Sarah wants to stay in Paris.
(d) Whether Sarah is coming to kill him.

6. What food do Strether and Miss Gostrey eat together in Chapter 12?
(a) Baguettes.
(b) Cookies and Milk.
(c) Melon.
(d) Cheese and Crackers.

7. What does Strether tell Bilham concerning Mamie Pocock's opinion of Chad?
(a) She never loved Chad.
(b) She is in love with Waymarsh.
(c) She would have loved him more as she originally thought he was.
(d) She has never stopped loving Chad.

8. What does Strether suggest that Chad wants in Book 12?
(a) A kickable surface.
(b) An endless vacation.
(c) A perfect wife.
(d) A challenging career.

9. Whom does Vionnet want Sarah to spend time with?
(a) Jeanne's fiancé.
(b) Miss Barrace.
(c) Her daughter, Jeanne.
(d) Her husband.

10. What does Strether notice about Madame de Vionnet during their last meeting?
(a) She is more beautiful than ever.
(b) She is visibly older.
(c) She is speaking Spanish.
(d) She hasn't showered recently.

11. What does Jim tell Strether in Chapter 8?
(a) That Jim wants to meet a pretty woman in Paris.
(b) That Jim misses him back in Woollett.
(c) That Sarah Pocock is prostrate.
(d) That Jim wishes he spoke French.

12. What is the ultimatum from Mrs. Newsome?
(a) That she will send Sarah and Jim to Paris if Chad does not return.
(b) That Strether is cut out of the will if he does not return.
(c) That Chad is cut out of the will if he does not return.
(d) That she will come herself to Paris if Chad does not return.

13. To what does Strether liken himself in Book 12?
(a) A tightrope walker.
(b) A bus driver.
(c) A carnival dancer.
(d) A figure in an old clock at Bern.

14. Where does Chad tell Strether that he has recently been in Book 12?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) Greece.

15. From which city in New York do the Pocock's sail?
(a) Boston.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Strether and Sarah not make eye contact during dinner at Chad's apartment in Chapter 10?

2. What nickname is used for Sarah?

3. What does Waymarsh aver that he knows nothing about in Book 10?

4. What does Madame de Vionnet tell Sarah in Book 8?

5. Whom does Strether report as having lied like a genteman?

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