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

2. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?

3. What does Henry seek to correct about the American girls he tours Paris with?

4. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?

5. What did Bob want to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What happens that develops a relationship between Henry and Mrs. Smith that's too intimate for a boss and his servant?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How does Henry change his opinion of the novel, THE SCARLET LETTER? How is this significant in Henry's life?

2) Describe the attack on Fort Wagner during the Civil War? What happens?

3) Who is James Barker and what happens to him in the Civil War?

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

Essay Topic 2

1) Why does Henry feel guilty about Minny's death? Who rebukes Henry concerning her death?

2) What does Henry do when he can no longer write do to a painful hand? Who does he hire?

3) Describe Lamb House?

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

Essay Topic 3

1) Who volunteers to help Henry decorate his new home in Rye? and what problem develops?

2) Describe Henry's father's debilitating experience. Who asked Henry about it?

3) What philosopher does Henry James Sr. read who changes his outlook on life to a happier one? What is it that Henry's father finds of interest

in the books of this philosopher?

4) Choose of of the three topics to write about.

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