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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was the famous mother of Maud Elliot?
(a) Mary Jane Patterson
(b) Julia Ward Howe
(c) Clara Barton
(d) Sarah Emma Edmond
2. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?
(a) Gosse
(b) Lady Wolseley
(c) hit aunt Kate
(d) Sturges
3. The books of what philosopher did Henry's father start reading after his vision and attack?
(a) Kant
(b) Swedenborg
(c) Spinoza
(d) Schopenhauer
4. When Henry decides on residing in Lamb House in Rye how long a lease does the owner grant him?
(a) a thirty-one-year lease
(b) a ten-year lease
(c) a twenty-one-year lease
(d) a twenty-year lease
5. What did Florence Letts' daughter do that touched Henry?
(a) She was very loving to her mother.
(b) She embraced him and fell asleep in his lap.
(c) She spoke of her love for animals.
(d) She told him he was kind and compared him to her father.
6. Which of Henry's cousins joined the army in the first year of the war?
(a) Jim and Harry Temple
(b) Gus Barker and William Temple
(c) William Barker and Gus Temple
(d) Bob Temple and Joseph Barker
7. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?
(a) that he might be lonely there
(b) that his sister, Alice, hadn't seen it before she died
(c) that he will most likely die there
(d) that it is a distance from London
8. To whom does Henry introduce Constance in Florence?
(a) his friends, Mrs. and Mr. Miller
(b) his aunt Kate and his cousin, Henrietta
(c) Francis Boott and his daughter Lizzie
(d) Florence Lett and Lily Norton
9. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?
(a) They were both writers.
(b) They both lived in Newport as children.
(c) They both loved classical music.
(d) They were both obsessed with the past.
10. What was Henry's dog's name?
(a) George
(b) Bruno
(c) King
(d) Maximilian
11. What favor had Mrs. Smith asked of Henry when in his employ in London?
(a) that Henry hire her daughter also
(b) that Henry lend her a sum of money
(c) that Henry substantially raise hers and her husband's pay
(d) that her ill sister could stay at Henry's while he was away
12. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) Lord Tennyson
(b) George I
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Queen Victoria
13. What was the name of the little girl in the ghost story published in Colliers?
(a) Myra
(b) Lucy
(c) Alice
(d) Flora
14. Who became a regular visitor of Henry's while he was preparing to leave London?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) his aunt Kate
(c) Francis Sturges
(d) Edmund Gosse
15. The girls Henry meets in Paris are the daughters of whom?
(a) Ellen Temple, Minny's sister
(b) Anne Emmet, Minny's sister
(c) Kaylina Smith, Minny's friend
(d) Sarah Temple, Minny's sister
Short Answer Questions
1. Constance had a letter of introduction from whom which she gave Henry?
2. What peculiar physical mannerism did Mrs. Florence Lett exhibit as she sat in Henry's drawing room?
3. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?
4. What did the doctors tell Henry's father he must do after he had that vision or attack?
5. Who was the stenographer Henry hired?
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