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

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

3. What did Florence Letts' daughter do that touched Henry?
(a) She spoke of her love for animals.
(b) She was very loving to her mother.
(c) She embraced him and fell asleep in his lap.
(d) She told him he was kind and compared him to her father.

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

5. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?
(a) By making the remark that she was homely and umkempt
(b) By exclaiming that she wore a crinoline and it was depraved
(c) By remarking on her table manners not being refined
(d) By exclaiming that she was terribly skinny and looked ill

Short Answer Questions

1. What did William want to be at first?

2. Who was George Gammon?

3. What was Henry's brother, William, like?

4. Who did Henry support and therefore wish not to get into an argument about during his visit in Marseilles?

5. What situation leads Henry to compose a new story?

(see the answer key)

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