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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 does Henry seek to correct about the American girls he tours Paris with?
(a) their flirtatiousness with European men
(b) their gaudy clothes
(c) their rude manners
(d) their speech, the way they drop consonants

2. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?
(a) before and just after William's marriage
(b) when she returned to New England
(c) when she was staying in London
(d) when she was traveling in Italy

3. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) details about the cases he tried
(b) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War
(c) his thoughts about England
(d) whom he was in love with

4. What did Henry's father live on?
(a) his writing
(b) his wife's fortune
(c) his inheritance, rent and dividends
(d) his children's earnings

5. Who wrote a letter from Venice to Henry in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Mrs. D'Onofrio the owner of Hotel Venezia
(b) Mrs. Scalia the owner of Hotel San Marco
(c) Mrs. Curtis, the owner of Palazzo Barbaro
(d) Mrs. Bellini the owner of Pension Giovanni

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hammond look like?

2. To whom does Henry introduce Constance in Florence?

3. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?

4. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?

5. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?

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