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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. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?
(a) He went to a restaurant and drank.
(b) He went for a walk in the park.
(c) He went to the opera.
(d) He attended Oscar Wilde's new play.

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

3. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?
(a) in the present in New England
(b) in a remote house on the rocks in Newport
(c) in an old mansion in New York
(d) in the past in England

4. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?
(a) that he was ashamed to be a homosexual
(b) that Sturges should live and be glad of it while he was young
(c) that he was ready finally to have a romantic fling
(d) that he didn't like Paris as well as London

5. What profession did Henry's friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., have?
(a) physician
(b) judge
(c) journalist
(d) soldier

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the audience like Henry's play?

2. In Chapter 1 where did Henry's dream take place?

3. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

4. What did Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial?

5. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the dream Henry has in Chapter 1.

2. What scandal results in Oscar Wilde being brought to open trial?

3. What upsets Henry the most while visiting the Wolseleys?

4. Why had the two lords invited Henry to visit them in Ireland?

5. Describe who visits him at eleven o'clock.

6. What happened when Alice's father died within a year after her mother's death?

7. What was Symonds' wife like?

8. What does Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial of Wilde?

9. How did Alice react to her mother's death?

10. Describe Minny Temple, Henry's cousin.

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