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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did William want to be at first?
(a) a poet
(b) a sculptor
(c) a banker
(d) a painter

3. What did Florence Lett's daughter look like and what was she wearing during her mother's visit to Lamb House?
(a) She was ordinary-looking with dark hair and a red 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 a dark-skinned brunette in a white dress.

4. What does Henry seek to correct about the American girls he tours Paris with?
(a) their flirtatiousness with European men
(b) their speech, the way they drop consonants
(c) their rude manners
(d) their gaudy clothes

5. What would his friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, have done about the Smiths?
(a) dismissed them at the first sign of inebriation
(b) let them stay on and would have hoped for the best
(c) persuaded them to go without rancor, or to reform
(d) made it so unpleasant for them they would want to leave

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

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

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

9. What was Henry's friend, Lily Norton, like?
(a) a shy, introverted wallflower of a woman
(b) had a commanding, graceful presence and keen intelligence
(c) a beautiful , charismatic woman who would marry well
(d) a charming though shallow woman

10. 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 are keep taking off and going back to London.
(c) They both start drinking heavily
(d) They both are caught stealing

11. How long had the Smiths worked for Henry at Kensington?
(a) 5 years
(b) 9 years
(c) 8 years
(d) 10 years

12. Who was Burgess Noakes?
(a) an old American friend who came to visit
(b) a magazine publisher friend of Henry's
(c) the butler at Lamb House
(d) boy-boy and valet to Henry at Lamb House

13. What does Henry do when he returns to Venice after a five-year absence?
(a) enjoys his return to the beautiful, romantic city
(b) visits several Venetian churches where he prays
(c) tries to avoid the street where Constance committed suicide
(d) begins a novel about Constance Fenimore Woolson

14. 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 fell and broke his one good leg
(c) He had a dream about the angel of death come to get him
(d) He was robbed and beaten when home alone

15. Who had been Henry's best friend, the person closest to him outside his own family?
(a) Lady Wolseley
(b) Jonathan Sturges
(c) Constance Fenimore Woolson
(d) Edmund Gosse

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?

2. What part of Henry's hand hurt him?

3. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?

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

5. What did Henry discover under the stairs of the house in Newport?

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