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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: March 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was pretty but shallow.
(b) She was a robust, happy girl.
(c) She was in ill health but stoic.
(d) She was healthy and very athletic.

2. Constance had a letter of introduction from whom which she gave Henry?
(a) from Minny Temple's sister, Henrietta
(b) from his aunt Kate
(c) from Minny Temple's sister, Sarah
(d) from his brother, William

3. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She had a nervous breakdown.
(b) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.
(c) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.
(d) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.

4. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) Queen Victoria
(b) George I
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Lord Tennyson

5. What part of Henry's hand hurt him?
(a) all his fingers
(b) along and around the bone from his wrist to his little finger
(c) his thumb running to his wrist
(d) his forefinger and palm

Short Answer Questions

1. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?

2. How old was Henry and how old was Constance when they met?

3. What was Henry's brother, William, like?

4. Where did Henry spend time that summer in Chapter 6?

5. Who did Henry support and therefore wish not to get into an argument about during his visit in Marseilles?

(see the answer key)

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