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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. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?
(a) that he will most likely die there
(b) that it is a distance from London
(c) that he might be lonely there
(d) that his sister, Alice, hadn't seen it before she died

2. What famous novelist visited the Jameses in Paris?
(a) George Eliot
(b) Thackery
(c) Balzac
(d) Guy de Maupassant

3. What prestigious club in London did Henry want to join?
(a) the Punch and Judy Club
(b) the Reform Club
(c) the Gentlemen's Club
(d) the Writer's Guild

4. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Emily Keats
(b) Mary Burns
(c) Lydia Shelly
(d) Dorothy Wordsworth

5. Where and when had Henry met Constance?
(a) 1883 in Naples, Italy
(b) 1882 in Genoa, Italy
(c) 1881 in Venice, Italy
(d) 1880 in Florence, Italy

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the stenographer Henry hired?

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

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

4. When did Henry James Senior die?

5. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?

(see the answer key)

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