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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?
(a) be a sweetheart and lover
(b) be submissive, cook, do needlework and care for her children.
(c) be a helpmeet to her husband in his career
(d) help make ends meet by earning some money

3. Who was Mr. Webster?
(a) the cook at the Royal Hospital
(b) Lady Wolseley's nephew
(c) a servant at the Royal Hospital
(d) the MP, friend of Lady Wolseley and foe to Henry

4. When did Henry James Senior die?
(a) ten years after his wife died
(b) four years after his wife died
(c) three years after his wife died
(d) within a year after his wife died

5. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?
(a) obituaries and death notices
(b) wedding announcements
(c) tombstones
(d) newspaper articles

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

7. What profession did Henry's friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., have?
(a) judge
(b) journalist
(c) physician
(d) soldier

8. 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.

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

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

11. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?
(a) His mother was a lesbian, his father a homosexual
(b) His parents were of the Irish nobility.
(c) Wilde's parents had disowned him for being homosexual.
(d) His mother was mad or revolutionary , his father a philanderer.

12. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.
(b) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.
(c) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.
(d) She had a nervous breakdown.

13. In Chapter 1 where did Henry's dream take place?
(a) New England
(b) Italy
(c) America
(d) England

14. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Dorothy Wordsworth
(b) Mary Burns
(c) Emily Keats
(d) Lydia Shelly

15. Who was Hammond?
(a) Henry's manservant at the Royal Hospital
(b) One of Lord Wolseley's guests
(c) Henry's cousin
(d) Henry's lost love from the past

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry like about Americans?

2. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

3. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?

4. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?

5. What was Minny Temple like?

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