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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 Miss Gostrey say is Strether's failure?
(a) The failure to watch his weight.
(b) The failure to speak French.
(c) The failure to save money.
(d) The failure to enjoy.

2. Why does Chad suspect that Strether wants to bring him home?
(a) To join Strether's business venture.
(b) To marry Strether's sister.
(c) As a wedding present to his mother.
(d) To be his friend.

3. Where was Strether before Chester?
(a) Scotland.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Ireland.

4. What nationality does Strether jokingly wish that Chad's lover is?
(a) Italian.
(b) Greek.
(c) Swedish.
(d) Polish.

5. What does Miss Gostrey say about her occupation?
(a) It is lucrative.
(b) She hates it.
(c) It doesn't pay enough.
(d) It is her fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chad ask Strether?

2. How long before Strether went to look for Chad did Chad leave?

3. What does Strether seek to ask Bilham in Book 5?

4. What deal does Strether make with Chad in Book 5?

5. After how much time does Chad leave Strether and Madame de Vionnet in the drawing room in Book 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chad's mother want him to return to America?

2. How do Madame de Vionnet and Miss Gostrey know one another?

3. What is Jeanne wearing when Strether first meets her?

4. What does Bilham tell Strether about Madame de Vionnet's husband?

5. To what does Miss Barrace compare Waymarsh when she first meets him?

6. Where does Strether first encounter Chad Newsome?

7. Whom does Strether encounter at Chad's apartment during his first visit there?

8. Where is the garden party to which Chad invites Strether in Book 5?

9. How did Strether's son die?

10. How much time elapses before Miss Gostrey arrives in Paris in Book 3?

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