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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Maud Howe Elliot and her artist husband want Henry to do?
(a) to visit them regularly anytime and mingle with their guests
(b) to leave them alone since they disliked him
(c) to write as novel with them as the main characters
(d) to visit the tourist attractions of Rome with them

2. What did Henry give a moving speech about at a party in Rome?
(a) his childhood memories of Newport
(b) expatriatism of Americans in Europe
(c) the difference between American and English writers
(d) his first impressions of Rome on a visit in his youth

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

4. 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

5. Who was George Gammon?
(a) a local storekeeper whom Henry especially liked
(b) a local gardener who Henry hired
(c) Henry's butler at Lamb House
(d) Henry's cook at Lamb House

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became a regular visitor of Henry's while he was preparing to leave London?

2. What fort was Wilky's regiment sent to attack?

3. How old was Florence Lett's daughter in Chapter 8?

4. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?

5. What did William want to be at first?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps Henry choose furnishings for his house and what problem develops with that person?

2. Who is Burgess Noakes and what is he like?

3. Where did the James family move and what brought about Henry's first breakthrough in his writing at the end of Chapter 7?

4. Who does Henry bring along with him from London to continue in his hire?

5. How does Henry's mother keep Henry out of the Civil War and how does Henry respond to this?

6. To whom does Henry introduce Constance and where; what is the result?

7. Who is Hendrick Andersen and what is Henry's relationship with him?

8. Who does Henry hire at the beginning of Chapter 6 and why?

9. Who suggested to Henry's father, after his attack, that he should read a certain philosopher's writings; who was the philosopher and what effect did it have on Henry's father?

10. What transpires when Hendrick visits Henry at Lamb House?

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