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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: March 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the family meals a trial for Alice?
(a) She didn't like being with the family but wanted to be alone.
(b) She was asked by her parents to tell about her day.
(c) She had no appetite and was constantly urged to eat.
(d) Bob and Wilky teased her and left her defenseless.

2. What was Henry's brother, William, like?
(a) He was shy and retiring
(b) He was quiet and intellectual
(c) He was exuberant, strong and popular
(d) He was a sickly boy

3. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) Mrs. Charles Kingsley
(b) Katherine Loring
(c) her cousin Minny
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

4. What had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?
(a) find him a house outside London where he could write
(b) make drawings of the houses in Henry's novels
(c) introduce him to some English nobility as possible patrons
(d) help him pay for the stenographer

5. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) two young brothers
(b) a boy and his younger sister
(c) two girls and their younger brother
(d) three young sisters

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?

2. What was the garden at Lamb House like?

3. Who was the stenographer Henry hired?

4. Where did Henry spend time that summer in Chapter 6?

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

(see the answer key)

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