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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: May 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) Queen Victoria
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Lord Tennyson
(d) George I

2. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?
(a) They both lived in Newport as children.
(b) They both loved classical music.
(c) They were both obsessed with the past.
(d) They were both writers.

3. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?
(a) the writer Lewis Crawford
(b) the novelist Marion Crawford
(c) the poet William Jones
(d) the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. What was the garden at Lamb House like?
(a) medium-sized but the plantings weren't to Henry's liking
(b) well-tended but too large for Henry's needs
(c) small with beautiful plantings
(d) neglected but with a great deal of promise

5. What was one of the photographs Henry looked at at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) his aunt Kate
(b) the monument to the 54 Massachusetts Regiment
(c) His brother William
(d) Lamb House

Short Answer Questions

1. How old had Henry been when he first visited Rome?

2. In what century is the play set?

3. What was Henry's dog's name?

4. What had Henry purchases before he left London?

5. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?

(see the answer key)

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