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

2. What did Florence Lett's daughter look like and what was she wearing during her mother's visit to Lamb House?
(a) She was ordinary-looking with dark hair and a red dress
(b) She was a dark-skinned brunette in a white dress.
(c) She was a red-head in a bright green dress.
(d) She was beautiful, fair with blue eyes and a blue dress.

3. What was the name of the little girl in the ghost story published in Colliers?
(a) Flora
(b) Alice
(c) Lucy
(d) Myra

4. Where and when had Henry met Constance?
(a) 1881 in Venice, Italy
(b) 1880 in Florence, Italy
(c) 1883 in Naples, Italy
(d) 1882 in Genoa, Italy

5. What place in Rome do Henry and Hendrik visit together?
(a) the Vatican
(b) the Colosseum
(c) the Spanish Steps
(d) the Protestant Cemetery

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Henry's hand hurt him?

2. Where do Henry and Hendrik go on one of the only sunny days during Hendrik's visit to Lamb House?

3. How old was Henry and how old was Constance when they met?

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

5. How long had the Smiths worked for Henry at Kensington?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Henry hire at the beginning of Chapter 6 and why?

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

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

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

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