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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Strether seek to ask Bilham in Book 5?

2. What does Strether tell Miss Gostrey about Bilham in Book 3?

3. Why does Strether feel he has been sent to Paris?

4. How does Miss Gostrey know Waymarsh?

5. What does Strether say to Bilham concerning Jeanne in Book 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what part of the city is Miss Gostrey's apartment?

2. Where is Chad's apartment in Paris?

3. How do Madame de Vionnet and Miss Gostrey know one another?

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

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

6. Why does Chad's mother want him to return to America?

7. What analogy does Waymarsh use to refer to Strether's errand in Book 3?

8. Where is the garden party to which Chad invites Strether in Book 5?

9. What physical change does Strether notice in Chad?

10. How old does Miss Gostrey suppose that Jeanne de Vionnet is in Book 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Strether is an editor of a literary review sponsored and published by his fiancée, Mrs. Newsome. Literature is a recurring motif in the novel. Write an essay in which you analyze passages in which particular works of literature or literature in general is discussed in the novel, and what the author might use these scenes to suggest about literature itself.

Essay Topic 2

Many of the characters make decisions out of love. Write an essay explaining how the idea of love is represented in the novel, considering whether different characters seem to hold different views of love, and whether love is idealized or presented realistically.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you argue which character (from among Lambert Strether, Jim Pocock, Mamie Pocock, and Sarah Pocock) is the most effective in his or her capacity as an ambassador. Explain what makes him or her the best ambassador. Use details from the text to justify your answer.

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