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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. How old was Henry and how old was Constance when they met?
(a) Henry was 40, Constance 38
(b) Henry was 38, Constance 42
(c) Henry was 37, Constance 40
(d) Henry was 39, Constance 41

2. 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

3. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?
(a) Venice
(b) Rome
(c) Geneva
(d) Boston

4. Where did Henry spend time that summer in Chapter 6?
(a) in the villages of the Suffolk coast
(b) on a vist to America
(c) in Venice
(d) in Ireland

5. What does Henry like about the American girls' reaction to Paris?
(a) their interest in art and museums
(b) their interest in historical facts about the city.
(c) their delight in the colors, vistas and grandeur of Paris
(d) their desire to walk everywhere and keep journals

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became a regular visitor of Henry's while he was preparing to leave London?

2. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?

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

4. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?

5. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?

(see the answer key)

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