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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Henry spend time that summer in Chapter 6?
(a) in Venice
(b) in Ireland
(c) on a vist to America
(d) in the villages of the Suffolk coast

3. With whom did Maud Elliot want to fix up Henry at one of her dinners?
(a) a widow and former Baroness von Rabe
(b) an older visitor from America who was a fan of Henry's
(c) an older Italian sculptress
(d) an old relative of hers who was visiting

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

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

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

7. 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

8. What did Maud Howe Elliot and her artist husband want Henry to do?
(a) to write as novel with them as the main characters
(b) to visit the tourist attractions of Rome with them
(c) to leave them alone since they disliked him
(d) to visit them regularly anytime and mingle with their guests

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

10. Who was the famous mother of Maud Elliot?
(a) Mary Jane Patterson
(b) Sarah Emma Edmond
(c) Clara Barton
(d) Julia Ward Howe

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

12. 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 interest in historical facts about the city.
(d) their delight in the colors, vistas and grandeur of Paris

13. Where do Henry and Hendrik go on one of the only sunny days during Hendrik's visit to Lamb House?
(a) They take a bicycle ride around the countryside near Rye.
(b) They visit the quaint old church in Rye.
(c) They bicycle to the sea , to the beach.
(d) They walk around the village of Rye , visiting the shops.

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

15. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?
(a) the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b) the novelist Marion Crawford
(c) the poet William Jones
(d) the writer Lewis Crawford

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Henry's cousins joined the army in the first year of the war?

2. What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Civil War Regiment?

3. Who was the stenographer Henry hired?

4. What was one of the photographs Henry looked at at the beginning of Chapter 7?

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

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