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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 was Minny Temple like?
(a) demure and domestic
(b) serious and shy
(c) unfriendly and unlikable
(d) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous

2. What did Bob want to do?
(a) be a farmer
(b) open a dry goods store
(c) become an accountant
(d) be a fisherman

3. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?
(a) The Princess Casamassima
(b) Daisy Miller
(c) Portrait of a Lady
(d) The Bostonians

4. How did Henry like to be seen as a writer by people?
(a) as a writer who would be known as a genius in the future
(b) as a playwright not a novelist
(c) as a popular, rich success
(d) as a noble, selfless non-materialist devoted to his art

5. Who was Burgess Noakes?
(a) boy-boy and valet to Henry at Lamb House
(b) a magazine publisher friend of Henry's
(c) the butler at Lamb House
(d) an old American friend who came to visit

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?

2. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

3. What did William want to be at first?

4. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?

5. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?

(see the answer key)

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