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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 May Bartram tell John Marcher about his secret?
(a) Everyone knew his secret.
(b) The event he waited for has already happened.
(c) He had misinterpreted all the important signs.
(d) She had always known about his secret.

2. How does James describe the Countess?
(a) Fit and energetic.
(b) Fragile and unhealthy-looking.
(c) Mousy and retiring.
(d) Stout and middle-aged.

3. Who haunts the house on jolly corner?
(a) Spencer Brydon's love for Miss Staverton.
(b) The man Spencer Brydon could have been.
(c) Spencer Brydon's father.
(d) Spencer Brydon's former self.

4. How does James characterize the relationship between May Bartram and John Marcher?
(a) May is obviously in love with John.
(b) May relies on John but does not love him.
(c) John finds May interesting but pedestrian.
(d) John is obviously in love with May.

5. What does James say a damsel in a small village can write about, if she is someone on whom nothing is lost?
(a) Evil.
(b) Married life.
(c) Faraway lands.
(d) Military life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Spencer Brydon acquire a second house?

2. To whom is the Munich engaged?

3. How does the main character find out that Lady Bradeen's husband has discovered the affair with Captain Everard?

4. Whose life does John Marcher think his life should have resembled?

5. How long ago did May Bartram and John Marcher meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Spencer Brydon react to the changes that took place in New York over the last 33 years?

2. What does Dencombe realize in the end of 'The Middle Years'?

3. What is the tragedy of 'The Middle Years'?

4. Describe Marcher's lifestyle.

5. Where is 'In the Cage' set?

6. What part does the telegraph operator play in the affair between Lady Bradeen and Captain Everard?

7. What is Marcher's realization at the end of 'The Beast in the Jungle'?

8. What did James study before he took to writing, and how did this influence his writing?

9. Who is the main character of 'In the Cage,' and what is he dilemma?

10. Describe Spencer Brydon's encounter with his alter ego.

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