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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. How old had Henry been when he first visited Rome?
(a) forty-one
(b) in his teens
(c) in his twenties
(d) in his early thirties

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

3. 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

4. What did the doctors tell Henry's father he must do after he had that vision or attack?
(a) go on walks and have visitors
(b) write about his thoughts in a journal each day
(c) take the medicine which was prescribed daily
(d) not read, write, think or make visits

5. What publication accepted Henry's first story written in the French style about an adulterous woman?
(a) the North American Review
(b) the Continental Monthly
(c) the Atlantic Monthly
(d) the Newport News

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the parlor maid at Lamb House?

2. Who was Burgess Noakes?

3. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?

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

5. How did Henry's good friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was George Gammon and what was he like?

2. Who visits Henry again and again as Henry prepares to leave London and what does he ask Henry to recount to him?

3. 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?

4. Which of Henry's brothers gives a speech; where is it given and about what?

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

6. What do Henry and his friend, Perry, do during the first summer of the Civil War and what is the effect on them?

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

8. Who is Burgess Noakes and what is he like?

9. Who suggested to Henry's father, after his attack, that he should read a certain philosopher's writings; who was the philosopher and what effect did it have on Henry's father?

10. Who helps Henry choose furnishings for his house and what problem develops with that person?

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