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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 Madame de Vionnet claim to detest?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Paris.
(c) Herself.
(d) Money.

2. What does Madame de Vionnet tell Strether in Book 9?
(a) That she thinks he should return to America.
(b) That she finds him irresistibly attractive.
(c) That no man could be kinder than he is to her.
(d) That he is one of the most intelligent men she knows.

3. Of whom does Sarah Newsome remind Chad and Strether?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Mrs. Newsome.
(c) Lady Godiva.
(d) Joan of Arc.

4. What does Strether think about Sarah at the advent of her arrival in Paris?
(a) That she will love Paris.
(b) That he hopes she doesn't yell at him in public.
(c) That he hopes she doesn't find Paris too overwhelming.
(d) That she will help him understand how he stands with Mrs. Newsome.

5. What does Strether thinking concerning Jim?
(a) That he will love Paris.
(b) That he will hate Paris.
(c) That he suspects Jim hates him.
(d) That he will tell him where Strether's reputation stands in Woollett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Strether go in the beginning of Book 7?

2. Where does Miss Gostrey tell Strether that she went in Book 12?

3. What does Miss Barrace tell Strether in Chapter 10?

4. Whom is Jeanne de Vionnet to marry?

5. Who tells Strether about the Pocock's trip to Switzerland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the couple whom Strether finds at the Cheval Blanc doing when he first sees them?

2. What does Strether do with the telegram he receives from Mrs. Newsome in Book 7?

3. Whom does Strether ask to marry Mamie Pocock in Book 10?

4. Where is Strether's last visit in Paris?

5. What does Chad ask Strether concerning his feelings from Chad's mother in Book 7?

6. Who does Madame de Vionnet announce is getting married in Book 9?

7. What does Miss Barrace tell Strether concerning Chad in Book 10?

8. Who has departed for Switzerland in Book 11?

9. What artist's painting does the scenery outside Paris remind Strether of?

10. What opinion does Mamie Pocock give Strether about Madame de Vionnet in Book 9?

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