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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Minny Temple?
(a) Wendell's cousin
(b) an imaginary character in one of Henry's novels
(c) Wendell's girlfriend
(d) Henry's cousin

2. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?
(a) his eyes
(b) his foot
(c) his arm
(d) his hand

3. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?
(a) Yeats
(b) Sturges
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) John Addington Symonds

4. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?
(a) gave him the hope he might make a lot of money
(b) lifted him out of gloom and filled him with hope for his writing
(c) filled him with fear that he couldn't bring it off
(d) inspired him to turn it into a play

5. Where did Henry's story appear in print?
(a) the English Illustrated Magazine
(b) as a published book in London
(c) the Irish Illustrated Magazine
(d) the New England Quarterly

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?

2. What did Hammond look like?

3. How was the only child guest at the Royal hospital dressed for the costume ball?

4. What was Minny Temple like?

5. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What inspires Henry to return to his writing with vigor in the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. What upsets Henry the most while visiting the Wolseleys?

3. What happened when Alice's father died within a year after her mother's death?

4. What did Henry long for after observing the people at the ball?

5. Who is Mr. Webster and how does he interact with Henry?

6. What incident with his father in Boulogne haunts Henry?

7. What is the plot of the novel Henry writes at the end of Chapter 4?

8. Who is Hammond?

9. Describe who visits him at eleven o'clock.

10. How was Princess Casamassima a double portrait of Henry's sister, Alice?

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