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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?
(a) They both loved classical music.
(b) They were both writers.
(c) They were both obsessed with the past.
(d) They both lived in Newport as children.

2. Who did Henry meet in Paris in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Rosalind and Betty Emmet
(b) Lucy and Marilyn Emmet
(c) Lucinda and Mary Emmet
(d) Rosina and Bay Emmet

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

4. What problem does Henry have with the Smiths which forces him to fire them?
(a) They both start becoming rude and surly to guests.
(b) They both start drinking heavily
(c) They both are caught stealing
(d) They are keep taking off and going back to London.

5. What did Henry's father live on?
(a) his wife's fortune
(b) his inheritance, rent and dividends
(c) his writing
(d) his children's earnings

6. Who did Henry support and therefore wish not to get into an argument about during his visit in Marseilles?
(a) Victor Hugo and Balzac
(b) Zola and Dreyfuss
(c) Racine and Baudelaire
(d) Moliere and Lamartine

7. What experience did Henry's father have in London many years ago which completely debilitated him?
(a) He fell and broke his one good leg
(b) He had a dream about the angel of death come to get him
(c) He had a vision of a huge bird of prey come to destroy him
(d) He was robbed and beaten when home alone

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

9. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?
(a) the story of Rip Van Winkle
(b) the story of Alice in Wonderland
(c) the his mother's childhood
(d) the story of his father's wooden leg

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

11. What prestigious club in London did Henry want to join?
(a) the Punch and Judy Club
(b) the Writer's Guild
(c) the Gentlemen's Club
(d) the Reform Club

12. How did Henry's father lose his leg?
(a) in a carriage accident
(b) in a fire
(c) in a hunting accident
(d) falling from the second story of a barn

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

14. How did Henry's good friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, die?
(a) She committed suicide in Venice.
(b) She died of a fever in Venice.
(c) She died of a heart attack in Venice.
(d) She died of tuberculosis in Venice.

15. What part of Henry's hand hurt him?
(a) all his fingers
(b) his thumb running to his wrist
(c) along and around the bone from his wrist to his little finger
(d) his forefinger and palm

Short Answer Questions

1. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?

2. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?

3. What does Henry seek to correct about the American girls he tours Paris with?

4. What fort was Wilky's regiment sent to attack?

5. What had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?

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