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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Henry give a moving speech about at a party in Rome?
(a) the difference between American and English writers
(b) his first impressions of Rome on a visit in his youth
(c) expatriatism of Americans in Europe
(d) his childhood memories of Newport

2. What are Hendrik and Henry celebrating when they have dinner at Hendrik's favorite restaurant?
(a) an award Hendrik won for a sculpture he made
(b) their mutual affection for one another
(c) the acceptance for publication of one of Henry's stories
(d) Henry's purchase of a small bust of Hendrik's

3. What was one of the photographs Henry looked at at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Lamb House
(b) His brother William
(c) his aunt Kate
(d) the monument to the 54 Massachusetts Regiment

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

5. When Henry decides on residing in Lamb House in Rye how long a lease does the owner grant him?
(a) a twenty-year lease
(b) a ten-year lease
(c) a thirty-one-year lease
(d) a twenty-one-year lease

6. What was the name of the little girl in the ghost story published in Colliers?
(a) Flora
(b) Myra
(c) Alice
(d) Lucy

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

8. What did Wilky and Bob have in common?
(a) handsome and attractive to women
(b) noisy, not interested in education, became soldiers
(c) quiet and introverted
(d) charming and charismatic to everyone

9. Where and when had Henry met Constance?
(a) 1881 in Venice, Italy
(b) 1883 in Naples, Italy
(c) 1880 in Florence, Italy
(d) 1882 in Genoa, Italy

10. Who was George Gammon?
(a) a local storekeeper whom Henry especially liked
(b) a local gardener who Henry hired
(c) Henry's cook at Lamb House
(d) Henry's butler at Lamb House

11. How old had Henry been when he first visited Rome?
(a) in his early thirties
(b) in his twenties
(c) in his teens
(d) forty-one

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

13. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?
(a) that his sister, Alice, hadn't seen it before she died
(b) that he might be lonely there
(c) that he will most likely die there
(d) that it is a distance from London

14. What had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?
(a) make drawings of the houses in Henry's novels
(b) help him pay for the stenographer
(c) introduce him to some English nobility as possible patrons
(d) find him a house outside London where he could write

15. What does Henry do when he returns to Venice after a five-year absence?
(a) begins a novel about Constance Fenimore Woolson
(b) enjoys his return to the beautiful, romantic city
(c) visits several Venetian churches where he prays
(d) tries to avoid the street where Constance committed suicide

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the doctors tell Henry's father he must do after he had that vision or attack?

2. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?

3. How old was Henry James when he was touring Paris with the two American sisters?

4. What was the garden at Lamb House like?

5. What did Henry's father live on?

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