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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 county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
(a) Kerry
(b) Tyrone
(c) Cavan
(d) Cork

2. What was Henry's brother, William, like?
(a) He was quiet and intellectual
(b) He was exuberant, strong and popular
(c) He was shy and retiring
(d) He was a sickly boy

3. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?
(a) George Bernard Shaw
(b) Sturges
(c) John Addington Symonds
(d) Yeats

4. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?
(a) Nottingham
(b) Rye
(c) Cornwall
(d) Brighton Beach

5. Who was Hammond?
(a) Henry's cousin
(b) Henry's manservant at the Royal Hospital
(c) Henry's lost love from the past
(d) One of Lord Wolseley's guests

Short Answer Questions

1. What did William want to be at first?

2. What profession did Henry's friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., have?

3. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?

4. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?

5. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?

(see the answer key)

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