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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 is Miss Gostrey's first name?

2. What does Strether notice about Madame de Vionnet's accent?

3. Where does Miss Gostrey meet Bilham?

4. What color is Jeanne wearing when Strether meets her?

5. How does Miss Gostrey know Waymarsh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the French term for breakfast and what does Waymarsh think about it?

2. Where does Strether first see Bilham standing?

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

4. How does Strether learn Miss Gostrey's name?

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

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

7. How did Strether's son die?

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

9. What physical change does Strether notice in Chad?

10. What does Strether tell Miss Gostrey about Bilham when she first returns to Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author gives little detail about the particulars concerning the source of wealth of the characters. Certain of the characters have professions, others do not. Write an essay in which you analyze the role of money in the novel, particularly with a view to discussing how it affects certain characters' worldview and/or decisions.

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

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.

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