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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Henry's dog's name?
(a) George
(b) Bruno
(c) Maximilian
(d) King
2. How did Henry's father lose his leg?
(a) in a fire
(b) in a carriage accident
(c) in a hunting accident
(d) falling from the second story of a barn
3. The books of what philosopher did Henry's father start reading after his vision and attack?
(a) Swedenborg
(b) Spinoza
(c) Kant
(d) Schopenhauer
4. What was the garden at Lamb House like?
(a) neglected but with a great deal of promise
(b) well-tended but too large for Henry's needs
(c) medium-sized but the plantings weren't to Henry's liking
(d) small with beautiful plantings
5. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) Lord Tennyson
(b) George I
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Queen Victoria
6. Who was Burgess Noakes?
(a) a magazine publisher friend of Henry's
(b) boy-boy and valet to Henry at Lamb House
(c) an old American friend who came to visit
(d) the butler at Lamb House
7. What did Henry give a moving speech about at a party in Rome?
(a) expatriatism of Americans in Europe
(b) his first impressions of Rome on a visit in his youth
(c) his childhood memories of Newport
(d) the difference between American and English writers
8. When Henry decides on residing in Lamb House in Rye how long a lease does the owner grant him?
(a) a ten-year lease
(b) a thirty-one-year lease
(c) a twenty-one-year lease
(d) a twenty-year lease
9. Who did Henry meet in Paris in the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Rosalind and Betty Emmet
(b) Lucy and Marilyn Emmet
(c) Lucinda and Mary Emmet
(d) Rosina and Bay Emmet
10. How old was Henry James when he was touring Paris with the two American sisters?
(a) 57
(b) 59
(c) 55
(d) 56
11. What publication accepted Henry's first story written in the French style about an adulterous woman?
(a) the Atlantic Monthly
(b) the Newport News
(c) the North American Review
(d) the Continental Monthly
12. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?
(a) the story of Rip Van Winkle
(b) the his mother's childhood
(c) the story of Alice in Wonderland
(d) the story of his father's wooden leg
13. What does Henry like about the American girls' reaction to Paris?
(a) their interest in historical facts about the city.
(b) their desire to walk everywhere and keep journals
(c) their delight in the colors, vistas and grandeur of Paris
(d) their interest in art and museums
14. Who was George Gammon?
(a) a local gardener who Henry hired
(b) a local storekeeper whom Henry especially liked
(c) Henry's butler at Lamb House
(d) Henry's cook at Lamb House
15. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?
(a) They both lived in Newport as children.
(b) They were both writers.
(c) They were both obsessed with the past.
(d) They both loved classical music.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?
2. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?
3. What did Maud Howe Elliot and her artist husband want Henry to do?
4. What did Wilky and Bob have in common?
5. What problem does Henry have with the Smiths which forces him to fire them?
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