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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 Chad ask Strether in Book 5?

2. What do Waymarsh and Strether eat together in Book 2?

3. How long before Strether went to look for Chad did Chad leave?

4. What does Bilham tell Strether about Chad's relationship with Madame de Vionnet in Book 6?

5. How does Bilham describes himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Strether encounter at Chad's apartment during his first visit there?

2. Before meeting Jeanne and Madame de Vionnet, what nationality does Strether suppose they are?

3. How did Strether's son die?

4. Where is Chad's apartment in Paris?

5. How does Strether recognize Miss Gostrey?

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

7. To whom does Chad introduce Strether at the party in Book 5?

8. What physical change does Strether notice in Chad?

9. To what does Miss Barrace compare Waymarsh when she first meets him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Strether and Maria Gostrey have a very close relationship that they develop in the course of the novel. Evaluate whether their relationship is more platonic or romantic. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay in which you discuss how Strether's self-confidence shifts throughout the novel. In your essay, consider how Strether's changes in perception and acquaintances affect this change.

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