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

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

3. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?
(a) She tried to make him fearful about serving in the army.
(b) She told him horror stories about soldiers injured in the war.
(c) She said she couldn't stand the strain of his joining.
(d) She invented an illness and treated him as if he were ill.

4. 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

5. What did Henry discover under the stairs of the house in Newport?
(a) a book of Emerson's Essays
(b) back numbers of the Revue des Deux Mondes
(c) back issues of the London Times
(d) Walden's Pond by Thoreau

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Henry's friend, Lily Norton, like?

3. Who was Burgess Noakes?

4. What experience did Henry's father have in London many years ago which completely debilitated him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does Henry tour Paris and what are they like?

2. Who is Hendrick Andersen and what is Henry's relationship with 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. Who was George Gammon and what was he like?

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

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

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

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