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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. What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Civil War Regiment?
(a) Henry's brother William had served in it.
(b) Henry had almost joined the regiment.
(c) It was the main theme of one of Henry's stories
(d) It was the first primarily black regiment of the American army

2. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?
(a) the his mother's childhood
(b) the story of Alice in Wonderland
(c) the story of Rip Van Winkle
(d) the story of his father's wooden leg

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

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

5. To whom is Mrs. Smith's sister now married?
(a) the gardener for a rich man in a neighboring town
(b) the cook at the Poet Laureate's
(c) the gardener for Lord Tennyson
(d) the gardener for Mr. Austin at Ashford

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the producer and lead actor of Henry's play?

2. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?

3. How did Henry's father lose his leg?

4. What did Henry do after the play ended?

5. What hadn't he done for a long time because of his painful hand?

(see the answer key)

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