View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had happened when Henry walked with his father on the beach in Boulogne?
(a) He and his father bonded for the first time.
(b) Henry saved a drowning girl.
(c) His father watched a female bather too intensely.
(d) Henry fell in love with the city of Boulogne.

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

3. What had Henry purchases before he left London?
(a) a walking cane
(b) a bicycle
(c) a fashionable summer suit
(d) a new writing desk

4. What does Lady Wolseley insinuate when assigning Hammond to serve Henry?
(a) that it will be a match since they're both homosexuals
(b) that Henry isn't capable of taking care of himself
(c) that Henry likes to be waited on hand and foot
(d) that Henry should be treated like royalty

5. What publication accepted Henry's first story written in the French style about an adulterous woman?
(a) the North American Review
(b) the Continental Monthly
(c) the Atlantic Monthly
(d) the Newport News

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

3. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?

4. Who was Lord Houghton?

5. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 359 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample