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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. Where is Gloriani's party?

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

3. From whose novel does Miss Gostrey recognize Strether's name?

4. What do Strether and Miss Gostrey do before the theater?

5. What is Strether's first name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Madame de Vionnet say to Strether when she first meets him?

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

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

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

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

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

Analyze how the writer uses various characters and their relationships to identify change as a primary theme of the novel. Consider how the writer both identifies and strengthens this theme throughout the novel's progression.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you discuss Strether's decision to return to America. In your essay, you should consider the reasons why you think he chooses to return as well as whether you agree with his decision.

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