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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: April 1898.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations
(b) the story of an American family in England
(c) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(d) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister

2. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?
(a) his eyes
(b) his hand
(c) his arm
(d) his foot

3. What had Henry purchases before he left London?
(a) a bicycle
(b) a fashionable summer suit
(c) a new writing desk
(d) a walking cane

4. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?
(a) a novelist
(b) a prim English woman
(c) a clergyman
(d) a nurse

5. What advantage did Emerson say Henry James, Sr. had over him?
(a) first-hand knowledge of suffering and being alone to study
(b) a more thorough knowledge of the Bible
(c) an understanding wife
(d) a large family

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

2. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?

3. What did Henry answer when Hammond asked where his loyalty would lie if there were a war between Great Britain and the U.S.?

4. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?

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

(see the answer key)

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