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The Ambassadors
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The Ambassadors
by:
Henry James
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Lewis Lambert Strether
Madame Marie de Vionnet
Miss Maria Gostrey
Chadwick Newsome
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1. What is Strether’s relationship to Mrs. Newsome?
He is her husband and brother.
She is his mother and owns his newspaper.
They belong to the same church and work together at a school.
She is his fiancée and funds his magazine.
2. From what town do Strether and Chad come from?
Woollett, Massachusetts
Woolly, Mammoth
Weymouth, Massachusetts
Williamsburg, Virginia
3. When he was younger, Strether was married and had how many children?
Six
One
Four
None
4. Throughout the novel, where does Strether go when he needs advice?
To speak to Waymarsh
To chat with Mrs. Newsome
To talk to Miss Gostrey
To yell at little Bilham
5. Where does Strether meet Waymarsh at the opening of the novel?
London, England
Weymouth, Massachusetts
Chester, France
Chester, England
6. What is the name of the street on which Chad Newsome has an apartment?
Boulevard Bonsherbes
Boulevard Malatov
Boulevard Malsherbes
Main Street
7. What does Miss Gostrey say of little Bilham when Strether first introduces her to him?
“He’s
not
all right—he’s too little!”
“I really like him—he’s just like us!”
“Oh he’s all right—he has big ears!”
“Oh he’s all right—he’s one of us!”
8. What does Strether intend to do in Europe?
Bring Chad home to enroll him in the army
Bring Chad home to his father and the family business
Bring Chad home to his mother and the family business
Grow as a person in deep and meaningful ways
9. What physical attribute strikes Strether as impressive about Chad when he first meets him?
His new double chin
His new gray hairs
His shiny, clean teeth
His new buff arms
10. How do people in Strether’s hometown describe Paris?
Cruddy
Cold
Coarse
Cursed
11. What is Gloriani’s profession?
Being famous
Painter
Dancer
Sculptor
12. Why does Madame de Vionnet live apart from her husband?
Because he is dead
Because he eats fruit
Because he is a brute
Because he is not cute
13. Where does Strether first see little Bilham?
At Miss Gostrey’s apartment
In Madame de Vionnet’s garden
On Chad’s balcony
Floating in the Seine
14. Miss Gostrey knew Madame de Vionnet in school when the madame was how old?
33
15
23
6
15. For whom is Mamie Pocock waiting when Strether finds her on the balcony?
Chad
Miss Gostrey
Strether
Little Bilham
16. With whom is Chad in a relationship?
Marie de Vionnet
Jeanne de Vionnet
Carly de Vionnet
Mamie Pocock
17. Whom does Mrs. Newsome send to replace Strether as ambassador?
Sarah Pocock
Sandy Newsome
Herself
Miss Barrace
18. In what church does Strether run into Madame de Vionnet?
Notre Dame de Paris
Basilica of the Sacré Cœur
Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
None—they met at a bar
19. Where do Sarah and Strether have their ultimate confrontation?
Notre Dame de Paris
Basilica of the Sacré Cœur
The hotel
The Louvre
20. Who gets blamed for Chad’s failure to return to the United States?
Chad
Sarah Pocock
Jeanne de Vionnet
Strether
21. Where do Sarah, Jim, and Mamie Pocock go, along with Waymarsh, at the end of the novel?
The States
The Soviet Union
Sweden
Switzerland
22. How does Strether travel out of town during his last week in Paris?
By bus
By foot
By carriage
By train
23. What relation does Chad have with the lady Strether sees him riding a boat with in a Parisian suburb?
She is his mentor.
She is his lover.
She is his priest.
She is his mother.
24. With whom does Chad go away after he is spotted in the boat?
No one
Madame de Vionnet
Mamie Pocock
Strether
25. What does Chad decide to do at the end of the novel?
To go back to run the family business
Nothing, he will stay in Paris
To go to his lover in London
To go to Strether’s hotel for a pizza party
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