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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What fort was Wilky's regiment sent to attack?
(a) Fort Sumner
(b) Fort Wagner
(c) Fort Savannah
(d) Fort Lee

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

4. How were the downstairs rooms at Lamb house like?
(a) medium-sized and dark
(b) elegant with large windows
(c) large and airy
(d) small and cozy

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

6. What had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?
(a) find him a house outside London where he could write
(b) help him pay for the stenographer
(c) introduce him to some English nobility as possible patrons
(d) make drawings of the houses in Henry's novels

7. What did Henry's father live on?
(a) his inheritance, rent and dividends
(b) his children's earnings
(c) his writing
(d) his wife's fortune

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

9. What hadn't he done for a long time because of his painful hand?
(a) eaten any steak or food he had to cut with a knife
(b) had a good night's sleep
(c) written any serious letters
(d) kept up with the serialized novel he was writing

10. What are Hendrik and Henry celebrating when they have dinner at Hendrik's favorite restaurant?
(a) Henry's purchase of a small bust of Hendrik's
(b) their mutual affection for one another
(c) the acceptance for publication of one of Henry's stories
(d) an award Hendrik won for a sculpture he made

11. Which of Henry's cousins joined the army in the first year of the war?
(a) Jim and Harry Temple
(b) William Barker and Gus Temple
(c) Gus Barker and William Temple
(d) Bob Temple and Joseph Barker

12. Who did Henry meet in Paris in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Rosina and Bay Emmet
(b) Lucy and Marilyn Emmet
(c) Rosalind and Betty Emmet
(d) Lucinda and Mary Emmet

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

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

15. 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 leave them alone since they disliked him
(c) to visit them regularly anytime and mingle with their guests
(d) to write as novel with them as the main characters

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Mrs. Smith's sister now married?

2. What did the doctors tell Henry's father he must do after he had that vision or attack?

3. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?

4. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?

5. What favor had Mrs. Smith asked of Henry when in his employ in London?

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