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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 Fanny say she never wants to find out in chapter 10 of Book Third?

2. Where does Fanny arrange to speak to the Prince in Book Third Chapter 7?

3. In Book Fourth Chapter 4, what does Maggie believe the Prince is purposely doing?

4. What happens to the women's relationship after Maggie visits Charlotte in Chapter 2 of Book Fourth?

5. What is the day that Charlotte and the Prince are spending together likened to in Chapter 9 of Book Third?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan of Charlotte's does Maggie tell Fanny about in Book Sixth Chapter 1?

2. What sense of accomplishment does Maggie feel after throwing a dinner party in Book Fourth Chapter 4?

3. What conflicting feelings does Maggie have when she and her husband are left alone in London for a week in Book Fourth Chapter 8?

4. Why does Maggie suppose the Prince wants to stay near London In Book Sixth Chapter 1?

5. What does Charlotte say may have made things different in her relationship with the Prince and her husband?

6. What does the analogy of the day being like a cup remind the Prince of?

7. After the dinner party, when Maggie tries to speak to her husband about Charlotte, what can she not help but appear to feel toward Charlotte?

8. How does Maggie find out about the past relationship between Charlotte and the Prince?

9. What does Maggie suggest the Prince do on their way home from the dinner party in Book Fourth Chapter 3? How does the Prince then startle Maggie?

10. What does Fanny notice about the Prince's and the Ververs' households in Book Third Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the relationship between Maggie and her father, Adam Verver. What evidence is there that suggests they have a close relationship? How are Adam's and Maggie's choices influenced by each other? Is their relationship destructive in any way? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the characters Charlotte Stant and Maggie Verver. What are their defining character traits? What similarities and differences do these characters have? Are they friends?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Maggie's character growth throughout the novel. What causes her to grow as a character? In what ways does she grow? How does her marriage to the Prince and the problems they have help her grow? In what way did her relationship with her father stunt her emotional growth?

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