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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. To whom is Mrs. Smith's sister now married?
(a) the cook at the Poet Laureate's
(b) the gardener for Mr. Austin at Ashford
(c) the gardener for a rich man in a neighboring town
(d) the gardener for Lord Tennyson

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

5. What did the doctors tell Henry's father he must do after he had that vision or attack?
(a) not read, write, think or make visits
(b) go on walks and have visitors
(c) write about his thoughts in a journal each day
(d) take the medicine which was prescribed daily

6. Who did Henry visit in Marseilles?
(a) Henri Bourgis and his wife
(b) Paul Bourget and his wife
(c) Peter Bourget and his wife Claire
(d) Pierre Boulet and his wife

7. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?
(a) She said she couldn't stand the strain of his joining.
(b) She told him horror stories about soldiers injured in the war.
(c) She tried to make him fearful about serving in the army.
(d) She invented an illness and treated him as if he were ill.

8. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?
(a) hit aunt Kate
(b) Lady Wolseley
(c) Gosse
(d) Sturges

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

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

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

12. What favor had Mrs. Smith asked of Henry when in his employ in London?
(a) that her ill sister could stay at Henry's while he was away
(b) that Henry hire her daughter also
(c) that Henry substantially raise hers and her husband's pay
(d) that Henry lend her a sum of money

13. 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 red-head in a bright green dress.
(b) She was beautiful, fair with blue eyes and a blue dress.
(c) She was a dark-skinned brunette in a white dress.
(d) She was ordinary-looking with dark hair and a red dress

14. The books of what philosopher did Henry's father start reading after his vision and attack?
(a) Schopenhauer
(b) Swedenborg
(c) Kant
(d) Spinoza

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Florence Lett's daughter in Chapter 8?

2. What did Bob want to do?

3. What would his friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, have done about the Smiths?

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

5. Who was Burgess Noakes?

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