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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the stenographer Henry hired?
(a) John Gordon
(b) Kenneth MacDonald
(c) James MacDougal
(d) William MacAlpine

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

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

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

8. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) George Bernard Shaw
(b) Queen Victoria
(c) Lord Tennyson
(d) George I

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

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

11. 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 twenty-year lease
(c) a twenty-one-year lease
(d) a ten-year lease

12. Constance had a letter of introduction from whom which she gave Henry?
(a) from Minny Temple's sister, Sarah
(b) from Minny Temple's sister, Henrietta
(c) from his brother, William
(d) from his aunt Kate

13. 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 held her pinky up straight while drinking her tea.
(c) She rolled her eyes all the time.
(d) She moved her foot back and forth quickly.

14. The girls Henry meets in Paris are the daughters of whom?
(a) Anne Emmet, Minny's sister
(b) Sarah Temple, Minny's sister
(c) Kaylina Smith, Minny's friend
(d) Ellen Temple, Minny's sister

15. 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 said she couldn't stand the strain of his joining.
(c) She tried to make him fearful about serving in the army.
(d) She told him horror stories about soldiers injured in the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?

2. Where in Rome did Henry attend a party?

3. What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Civil War Regiment?

4. What did Wilky and Bob have in common?

5. What did Henry's father live on?

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