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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. How were the downstairs rooms at Lamb house like?
(a) small and cozy
(b) elegant with large windows
(c) medium-sized and dark
(d) large and airy

2. What did Hammond look like?
(a) He was medium height with green eyes and a mustache
(b) He was short with brown eyes and a beard
(c) He was tall with brown eyes without a mustache or beard
(d) He was tall and blond with blue eyes

3. What did Florence Letts' daughter do that touched Henry?
(a) She spoke of her love for animals.
(b) She embraced him and fell asleep in his lap.
(c) She was very loving to her mother.
(d) She told him he was kind and compared him to her father.

4. What did Henry have to occupy his time with in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) visiting a sick friend daily
(b) writing columns for the London Times
(c) showing friends and relatives around London
(d) writing letters to his many friends

5. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?
(a) Rome
(b) Venice
(c) Boston
(d) Geneva

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?

2. What was Henry's brother, William, like?

3. What would his friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, have done about the Smiths?

4. What was the garden at Lamb House like?

5. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.

(see the answer key)

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