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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Henry and how old was Constance when they met?
(a) Henry was 37, Constance 40
(b) Henry was 38, Constance 42
(c) Henry was 39, Constance 41
(d) Henry was 40, Constance 38

3. What peculiar physical mannerism did Mrs. Florence Lett exhibit as she sat in Henry's drawing room?
(a) She moved her foot back and forth quickly.
(b) She made different passionate facial expressions
(c) She held her pinky up straight while drinking her tea.
(d) She rolled her eyes all the time.

4. Who wrote a letter from Venice to Henry in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Mrs. Bellini the owner of Pension Giovanni
(b) Mrs. Curtis, the owner of Palazzo Barbaro
(c) Mrs. Scalia the owner of Hotel San Marco
(d) Mrs. D'Onofrio the owner of Hotel Venezia

5. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) George I
(b) Lord Tennyson
(c) Queen Victoria
(d) George Bernard Shaw

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

7. What is the name of the parlor maid at Lamb House?
(a) Molly
(b) Lydia
(c) Fanny
(d) Mary

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

9. What did Florence Lett's daughter look like and what was she wearing during her mother's visit to Lamb House?
(a) She was a dark-skinned brunette in a white dress.
(b) She was beautiful, fair with blue eyes and a blue dress.
(c) She was a red-head in a bright green dress.
(d) She was ordinary-looking with dark hair and a red dress

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

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

12. 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) the acceptance for publication of one of Henry's stories
(c) their mutual affection for one another
(d) Henry's purchase of a small bust of Hendrik's

13. What was the name of the doctor who examined Henry?
(a) Dr. Richardson
(b) Dr. Hamilton
(c) Dr. Harmon
(d) Dr. Williams

14. How old was Henry James when he was touring Paris with the two American sisters?
(a) 56
(b) 55
(c) 59
(d) 57

15. What was the garden at Lamb House like?
(a) medium-sized but the plantings weren't to Henry's liking
(b) small with beautiful plantings
(c) neglected but with a great deal of promise
(d) well-tended but too large for Henry's needs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?

3. What does Henry buy for his house which he is advised not to buy?

4. What does Henry do when he returns to Venice after a five-year absence?

5. What was Henry's dog's name?

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