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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 Henry discover under the stairs of the house in Newport?
(a) Walden's Pond by Thoreau
(b) back numbers of the Revue des Deux Mondes
(c) a book of Emerson's Essays
(d) back issues of the London Times

2. Who are the two relatives who appear in Henry's dream?
(a) his cousin, Minny, and his mother
(b) his Mother and his Aunt Kate
(c) his father and his brother William
(d) his brother, Wilky and his brother Bob

3. What did Maud Howe Elliot and her artist husband want Henry to do?
(a) to visit the tourist attractions of Rome with them
(b) to visit them regularly anytime and mingle with their guests
(c) to leave them alone since they disliked him
(d) to write as novel with them as the main characters

4. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?
(a) for the noble inhabitants of Dublin
(b) for old British soldiers of the seventeenth century
(c) for war victims
(d) for the general population of Dublin

5. What French author did Henry enjoy reading?
(a) Guy de Maupassant
(b) Racine
(c) Victor Hugo
(d) Balzac

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?

3. How did the audience like Henry's play?

4. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?

5. Who was the famous mother of Maud Elliot?

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