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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote a letter from Venice to Henry in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Mrs. Curtis, the owner of Palazzo Barbaro
(b) Mrs. Scalia the owner of Hotel San Marco
(c) Mrs. D'Onofrio the owner of Hotel Venezia
(d) Mrs. Bellini the owner of Pension Giovanni

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

3. What does Henry buy for his house which he is advised not to buy?
(a) an ornate lamp
(b) an old desk
(c) a tapestry
(d) a brass bed

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

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

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

7. What did Henry and William have in common?
(a) didn't join the army and studied at Harvard
(b) were their father's favorite sons
(c) were Minny Temple's admirers
(d) were interested in fame, fortune and women

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What did Wilky and Bob have in common?
(a) noisy, not interested in education, became soldiers
(b) charming and charismatic to everyone
(c) quiet and introverted
(d) handsome and attractive to women

15. Where do Henry and Hendrik go on one of the only sunny days during Hendrik's visit to Lamb House?
(a) They walk around the village of Rye , visiting the shops.
(b) They take a bicycle ride around the countryside near Rye.
(c) They visit the quaint old church in Rye.
(d) They bicycle to the sea , to the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry do when he returns to Venice after a five-year absence?

2. What problem does Henry have with the Smiths which forces him to fire them?

3. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?

4. Where in Rome did Henry attend a party?

5. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?

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