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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?
(a) Rye
(b) Brighton Beach
(c) Nottingham
(d) Cornwall
2. What had Henry purchases before he left London?
(a) a bicycle
(b) a fashionable summer suit
(c) a walking cane
(d) a new writing desk
3. What situation leads Henry to compose a new story?
(a) Minny's courageous defense of her opinions
(b) His father's outgrageous outburst against women
(c) Henry's experience when sleeping with Holmes
(d) Holmes, Gray and himself seeking Minny's affection
4. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?
(a) By making the remark that she was homely and umkempt
(b) By exclaiming that she wore a crinoline and it was depraved
(c) By remarking on her table manners not being refined
(d) By exclaiming that she was terribly skinny and looked ill
5. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?
(a) Lady Wolseley
(b) Douglas's father
(c) Sturges
(d) a newspaper reporter
6. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?
(a) The horses in the stables are starving.
(b) The young daughter of one of the guests is ignored.
(c) The servants are mistreated.
(d) It's bitterly cold in his room
7. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?
(a) Greek ethics, love between men
(b) Italy and its beauty
(c) Baroque art and music
(d) fairytales
8. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) details about the cases he tried
(b) whom he was in love with
(c) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War
(d) his thoughts about England
9. What is the name of the producer and lead actor of Henry's play?
(a) Trevor
(b) Oscar
(c) William
(d) Alexander
10. What was Minny Temple like?
(a) demure and domestic
(b) serious and shy
(c) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous
(d) unfriendly and unlikable
11. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?
(a) be a helpmeet to her husband in his career
(b) be submissive, cook, do needlework and care for her children.
(c) help make ends meet by earning some money
(d) be a sweetheart and lover
12. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?
(a) his house was ordinary, his family introverted and fearful
(b) his house, wife and children were warm, perfect and beautiful
(c) his house was small and unimposing, his family unattractive
(d) his house was forbidding, his wife and children ordinary
13. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?
(a) two boys
(b) two boys and a girl
(c) two girls
(d) a boy and a girl
14. What is the title of Henry's play which is having its premiere?
(a) Civil War Nightmare
(b) Portrait of a Lady
(c) Daisy Miller
(d) Guy Domville
15. Who is Gus Barker?
(a) a fellow student of William's at Harvard
(b) Henry's father's best friend
(c) a cousin of the Temple sisters, killed in the Civil War
(d) another of Minny's suitors
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?
2. 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.
3. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
4. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
5. Where was Oscar Wilde's play held?
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