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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. What was the name of the doctor who examined Henry?
(a) Dr. Hamilton
(b) Dr. Richardson
(c) Dr. Harmon
(d) Dr. Williams

2. What experience did Henry's father have in London many years ago which completely debilitated him?
(a) He had a dream about the angel of death come to get him
(b) He fell and broke his one good leg
(c) He had a vision of a huge bird of prey come to destroy him
(d) He was robbed and beaten when home alone

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

4. How old was Florence Lett's daughter in Chapter 8?
(a) eight
(b) seven
(c) five
(d) six

5. 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 he might be lonely there
(c) that he will most likely die there
(d) that it is a distance from London

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became a regular visitor of Henry's while he was preparing to leave London?

2. What publication accepted Henry's first story written in the French style about an adulterous woman?

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

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

5. What did Maud Howe Elliot and her artist husband want Henry to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Cabot Russell and what happened to him?

2. How does Henry's mother keep Henry out of the Civil War and how does Henry respond to this?

3. What does Henry do when he is summoned to Venice after Constance's suicide?

4. What transpires when Hendrick visits Henry at Lamb House?

5. Who is Hendrick Andersen and what is Henry's relationship with him?

6. What is the importance of the book THE SCARLET LETTER by Hawthorne in Henry's life?

7. What was Henry's guest, Lily Norton, like and what did they have in common?

8. Which story did Henry decide to submit to which publication and which character in the story started to take on a life of her own, developing in ways Henry had not originally intended?

9. What morbid thought comes to Henry when he envisions his life in Lamb House in Rye?

10. To whom does Henry introduce Constance and where; what is the result?

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