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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Strether tell Madame de Vionnet in Book 6?
(a) She is not as attractive as her mother.
(b) She is an angel of light.
(c) She is too tall.
(d) She is perfect.

2. Who is Jeanne?
(a) A street performer.
(b) Madame de Vionnet's daughter.
(c) A waitress at a café Strether frequents.
(d) A French politician.

3. What does Chad say that Strether and his family must have imagined during his time in Paris?
(a) Horrors.
(b) Women.
(c) Delights.
(d) Extravagance.

4. What does Chad ask Strether in Book 6?
(a) What he thinks of Jeanne.
(b) When he wants to go to America.
(c) What he thinks of Mrs. Newsome.
(d) When he wants to go to Switzerland.

5. What color is Jeanne wearing when Strether meets her?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Barrace do after breakfast?

2. Where does Strether go walking in Paris?

3. What is the plot of the play in Book 2?

4. Who is Mamie Pocock?

5. How does Strether describe Chad's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Strether and Miss Gostrey take a walk in Book 1?

2. What does Chad reply when Strether asks him if he is engaged to Jeanne de Vionnet?

3. How much time elapses before Miss Gostrey arrives in Paris in Book 3?

4. Which characters have breakfast together at Chad's apartment in Book 3?

5. How does Strether recognize Miss Gostrey?

6. How does Strether meet Miss Gostrey?

7. How did Strether's son die?

8. Where does Bilham say that Chad is when Strether first comes looking for him?

9. Where is Chad's apartment in Paris?

10. What does Bilham tell Strether about Madame de Vionnet's husband?

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