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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 like about the American girls' reaction to Paris?
(a) their interest in historical facts about the city.
(b) their interest in art and museums
(c) their desire to walk everywhere and keep journals
(d) their delight in the colors, vistas and grandeur of Paris

2. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?
(a) in the present in New England
(b) in the past in England
(c) in a remote house on the rocks in Newport
(d) in an old mansion in New York

3. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(b) Charles Kingsley
(c) Ned Lowell
(d) her older brother William

4. How did Alice behave when a young man came into the room?
(a) She made a point of ignoring the young man.
(b) She became garrulous, shrill and uneasy.
(c) She became extremely flirtatious.
(d) She left the room immediately.

5. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
(a) Tyrone
(b) Kerry
(c) Cork
(d) Cavan

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?

3. Where did Henry's story appear in print?

4. What was Symonds's wife like?

5. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?

(see the answer key)

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