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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: October 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What hadn't he done for a long time because of his painful hand?
(a) kept up with the serialized novel he was writing
(b) eaten any steak or food he had to cut with a knife
(c) written any serious letters
(d) had a good night's sleep

3. What did Henry's father say that Minny took exception to?
(a) He was critical of his sons and daughter.
(b) He didn't like animals.
(c) He said women were inferior in intellect and physical strength.
(d) He was against abolition

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

5. How old was Henry James when he was touring Paris with the two American sisters?
(a) 56
(b) 55
(c) 57
(d) 59

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?

2. What did Alice, William's wife, offer Henry when she heard of his wish to buy Lamb House?

3. Where do Henry and Hendrik go on one of the only sunny days during Hendrik's visit to Lamb House?

4. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?

5. What does William, Henry's brother, do which Henry views as an insult?

(see the answer key)

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