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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: April 1895.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the audience like Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) They loved it.
(b) They were shocked by it.
(c) They hated it.
(d) They were bored with it.

2. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?
(a) Lord Wolseley's cousin
(b) a homosexual friend who slept with Wilde's boys after he did
(c) Henry's friend and patron
(d) Wilde's cousin

3. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?
(a) His parents were of the Irish nobility.
(b) His mother was a lesbian, his father a homosexual
(c) Wilde's parents had disowned him for being homosexual.
(d) His mother was mad or revolutionary , his father a philanderer.

4. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.
(a) sensitive
(b) blank
(c) boring
(d) intelligent

5. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of an American family in England
(b) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations
(c) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(d) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hammond?

2. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.

3. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?

4. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

5. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?

(see the answer key)

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