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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?
(a) his Army shoes
(b) the jacket of his uniform
(c) his Army blanket
(d) his Union cap

2. How old had Henry been when he first visited Rome?
(a) in his teens
(b) in his early thirties
(c) forty-one
(d) in his twenties

3. Who had been Henry's best friend, the person closest to him outside his own family?
(a) Jonathan Sturges
(b) Edmund Gosse
(c) Constance Fenimore Woolson
(d) Lady Wolseley

4. What part of Henry's hand hurt him?
(a) his thumb running to his wrist
(b) his forefinger and palm
(c) all his fingers
(d) along and around the bone from his wrist to his little finger

5. How old was Florence Lett's daughter in Chapter 8?
(a) eight
(b) six
(c) seven
(d) five

6. What publication accepted Henry's first story written in the French style about an adulterous woman?
(a) the Continental Monthly
(b) the Atlantic Monthly
(c) the Newport News
(d) the North American Review

7. What place in Rome do Henry and Hendrik visit together?
(a) the Spanish Steps
(b) the Vatican
(c) the Colosseum
(d) the Protestant Cemetery

8. To whom is Mrs. Smith's sister now married?
(a) the cook at the Poet Laureate's
(b) the gardener for a rich man in a neighboring town
(c) the gardener for Mr. Austin at Ashford
(d) the gardener for Lord Tennyson

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

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

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

12. Who wrote a letter from Venice to Henry in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Mrs. Bellini the owner of Pension Giovanni
(b) Mrs. Scalia the owner of Hotel San Marco
(c) Mrs. D'Onofrio the owner of Hotel Venezia
(d) Mrs. Curtis, the owner of Palazzo Barbaro

13. What did Wilky and Bob have in common?
(a) noisy, not interested in education, became soldiers
(b) quiet and introverted
(c) handsome and attractive to women
(d) charming and charismatic to everyone

14. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?
(a) told him to dismiss them at once
(b) laughed uproariously and made him describe the Smiths
(c) been sympathetic and understanding of his actions
(d) sympathized with the Smiths and urged him not to fire them

15. What did the doctors tell Henry's father he must do after he had that vision or attack?
(a) write about his thoughts in a journal each day
(b) go on walks and have visitors
(c) take the medicine which was prescribed daily
(d) not read, write, think or make visits

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry like about the American girls' reaction to Paris?

2. What was the name of the little girl in the ghost story published in Colliers?

3. Where do Henry and Hendrik go on one of the only sunny days during Hendrik's visit to Lamb House?

4. What peculiar physical mannerism did Mrs. Florence Lett exhibit as she sat in Henry's drawing room?

5. What was Henry's friend, Lily Norton, like?

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