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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Perhaps the highest point at this time in Barrie's life however was the beginning of a correspondence with whom?
(a) His soon-to-be best friend, Thomas Hardy.
(b) An actress named Minnie Palmer.
(c) His hero, fellow Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) His future publisher, Charles Frohman.

2. Ansell would soon find that Barrie desperately lacked what?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Love.
(d) Passion.

3. What relationship helped James to gain much-needed self-confidence?
(a) The relationship with his older brother.
(b) The relationship with his sister Sara.
(c) The relationship with his sister Jane Ann.
(d) The relationship with his younger sister Maggie.

4. Edinburgh turned out to be the ______________ years of Barrie's life.
(a) Wildest.
(b) Oddest.
(c) Happiest.
(d) Loneliest.

5. Barrie had been working on the production of "The Wedding Guest," an Ibsen-like play that was ____________ the light hearted comedy, "The Little Minister."
(a) Similar to.
(b) Nothing like.
(c) Just like.
(d) Almost like.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barrie dreamed of becoming what?

2. Why was it natural that Arthur and Sylvia would be invited to the New Year's Eve dinner party where they would meet Barrie?

3. What was the working title of the play?

4. Arthur, a young and rapidly rising barrister, met Sylvia du Maurier in 1889 where?

5. Chapter 2 begins with Barrie talking about his love of what?

(see the answer key)

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