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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. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?
(a) Portrait of a Lady
(b) The Princess Casamassima
(c) The Bostonians
(d) Daisy Miller

2. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Mary Burns
(b) Emily Keats
(c) Lydia Shelly
(d) Dorothy Wordsworth

3. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) three young sisters
(b) a boy and his younger sister
(c) two girls and their younger brother
(d) two young brothers

4. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?
(a) that his sister, Alice, hadn't seen it before she died
(b) that he might be lonely there
(c) that he will most likely die there
(d) that it is a distance from London

5. What experience did Henry's father have in London many years ago which completely debilitated him?
(a) He was robbed and beaten when home alone
(b) He had a dream about the angel of death come to get him
(c) He had a vision of a huge bird of prey come to destroy him
(d) He fell and broke his one good leg

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Henry James Senior die?

2. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?

3. What had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?

4. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?

5. Who did Henry visit in Marseilles?

(see the answer key)

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