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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: May 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bob want to do?
(a) be a fisherman
(b) become an accountant
(c) be a farmer
(d) open a dry goods store

2. Who had been Henry's best friend, the person closest to him outside his own family?
(a) Jonathan Sturges
(b) Lady Wolseley
(c) Constance Fenimore Woolson
(d) Edmund Gosse

3. Who was Minny Temple?
(a) Henry's cousin
(b) Wendell's cousin
(c) an imaginary character in one of Henry's novels
(d) Wendell's girlfriend

4. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?
(a) a homosexual friend who slept with Wilde's boys after he did
(b) Lord Wolseley's cousin
(c) Wilde's cousin
(d) Henry's friend and patron

5. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?
(a) Rome
(b) Geneva
(c) Venice
(d) Boston

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage did Emerson say Henry James, Sr. had over him?

2. What does Henry do when he returns to Venice after a five-year absence?

3. What situation leads Henry to compose a new story?

4. What did Hammond look like?

5. What was Henry's dog's name?

(see the answer key)

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