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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. Who is John Gray?
(a) another of Minny's suitors, a military man and intellectual
(b) Henry's cousin
(c) a fellow novelist
(d) a man Henry fell in love with in his youth

2. How was the only child guest at the Royal hospital dressed for the costume ball?
(a) as the infanta of Velaquez' painting
(b) as Little Bo Peep
(c) as a fairy princess
(d) as an angel

3. What was Minny Temple like?
(a) serious and shy
(b) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous
(c) unfriendly and unlikable
(d) demure and domestic

4. What was one of the photographs Henry looked at at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Lamb House
(b) his aunt Kate
(c) His brother William
(d) the monument to the 54 Massachusetts Regiment

5. What was the name of the little girl in the ghost story published in Colliers?
(a) Lucy
(b) Flora
(c) Myra
(d) Alice

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?

2. How did Henry's good friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, die?

3. What experience did Henry's father have in London many years ago which completely debilitated him?

4. What did Florence Lett's daughter look like and what was she wearing during her mother's visit to Lamb House?

5. What peculiar physical mannerism did Mrs. Florence Lett exhibit as she sat in Henry's drawing room?

(see the answer key)

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