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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 Henry's dog's name?
(a) George
(b) King
(c) Maximilian
(d) Bruno

2. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?
(a) been sympathetic and understanding of his actions
(b) laughed uproariously and made him describe the Smiths
(c) sympathized with the Smiths and urged him not to fire them
(d) told him to dismiss them at once

3. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?
(a) the novelist Marion Crawford
(b) the poet William Jones
(c) the writer Lewis Crawford
(d) the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. What did Henry's father live on?
(a) his children's earnings
(b) his writing
(c) his inheritance, rent and dividends
(d) his wife's fortune

5. The books of what philosopher did Henry's father start reading after his vision and attack?
(a) Swedenborg
(b) Kant
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Spinoza

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Florence Lett's daughter in Chapter 8?

2. When Henry decides on residing in Lamb House in Rye how long a lease does the owner grant him?

3. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?

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

5. How old had Henry been when he first visited Rome?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the difference between Henry and Hendrick and what do they have in common?

3. What location in Rome do Hendrick and Henry visit together and what is the significance of the visit?

4. Where did the James family move and what brought about Henry's first breakthrough in his writing at the end of Chapter 7?

5. 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?

6. Where does Constance go after Florence and what is also upsetting to Constance besides her depression?

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

8. What does Florence Lett's daughter do and what effect does it have on Henry?

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

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