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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: April 1898.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?
(a) She told him horror stories about soldiers injured in the war.
(b) She tried to make him fearful about serving in the army.
(c) She invented an illness and treated him as if he were ill.
(d) She said she couldn't stand the strain of his joining.

2. What did William want to be at first?
(a) a painter
(b) a sculptor
(c) a banker
(d) a poet

3. What did Henry's father live on?
(a) his wife's fortune
(b) his children's earnings
(c) his inheritance, rent and dividends
(d) his writing

4. What did Bob want to do?
(a) be a farmer
(b) become an accountant
(c) open a dry goods store
(d) be a fisherman

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?

2. How did Alice behave when a young man came into the room?

3. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?

4. How did Henry's father lose his leg?

5. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?

(see the answer key)

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