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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. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was pretty but shallow.
(b) She was in ill health but stoic.
(c) She was a robust, happy girl.
(d) She was healthy and very athletic.

2. What story was one of the delights of Henry's childhood?
(a) the story of his father's wooden leg
(b) the story of Rip Van Winkle
(c) the story of Alice in Wonderland
(d) the his mother's childhood

3. Who is John Gray?
(a) a fellow novelist
(b) another of Minny's suitors, a military man and intellectual
(c) a man Henry fell in love with in his youth
(d) Henry's cousin

4. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?
(a) His ancestors had come from there.
(b) It was near and the people he visited hadn't seen his play.
(c) He loved the landscape.
(d) He wanted to write a novel about Ireland.

5. What did Henry's father say that Minny took exception to?
(a) He was critical of his sons and daughter.
(b) He said women were inferior in intellect and physical strength.
(c) He was against abolition
(d) He didn't like animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?

2. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?

3. What did Henry's father live on?

4. Who was Mr. Webster?

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

(see the answer key)

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