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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Henry give a moving speech about at a party in Rome?
(a) his first impressions of Rome on a visit in his youth
(b) his childhood memories of Newport
(c) expatriatism of Americans in Europe
(d) the difference between American and English writers

5. 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 them regularly anytime and mingle with their guests
(c) to leave them alone since they disliked him
(d) to visit the tourist attractions of Rome with them

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

7. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?
(a) the his mother's childhood
(b) the story of Rip Van Winkle
(c) the story of his father's wooden leg
(d) the story of Alice in Wonderland

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

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

10. How old was Henry and how old was Constance when they met?
(a) Henry was 37, Constance 40
(b) Henry was 39, Constance 41
(c) Henry was 40, Constance 38
(d) Henry was 38, Constance 42

11. 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 lend her a sum of money
(d) that Henry substantially raise hers and her husband's pay

12. Who became a regular visitor of Henry's while he was preparing to leave London?
(a) Francis Sturges
(b) Oscar Wilde
(c) Edmund Gosse
(d) his aunt Kate

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Constance had a letter of introduction from whom which she gave Henry?

2. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?

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

4. How did Henry's father lose his leg?

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

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