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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?

2. What does Henry like about the American girls' reaction to Paris?

3. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?

4. What would his friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, have done about the Smiths?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Who does Henry bring along with him from London to continue in his hire?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Who is Gus Barker? What does he do at the school where William is a student? What happens to him during the Civil War?

2) Who are Minny Temple's three male suitors and what novel the James write based on the possible outcomes of her life with these three men?

3) Which English writer does Minny Temple love and how does Henry to some extent address this issue after Minny's death?

4) Choose one of the three questions to answer.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe an incident in Alice's childhood where she interacts in a deviant way with her aunt Kate.

2) What speech does William give in Boston? Why doesn't Henry travel to Boston for the speech?

3) What is the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment? Who in Henry's family is in that regiment?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Where does Henry's family originally come from in Ireland? How does Webster insult Henry about his family?

2) Describe the costume ball that Lady Wolseley puts on during Henry's visit? Who does Mrs. Webster dress as? Who does Mona dreaa as?

3) Who is Mona? What upsets Henry concerning her?

4) Choose one of the three topics and write on it.

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