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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 news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play
(b) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry
(c) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.
(d) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery

2. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.
(b) She had a nervous breakdown.
(c) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.
(d) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.

3. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?
(a) obituaries and death notices
(b) wedding announcements
(c) tombstones
(d) newspaper articles

4. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?
(a) Daisy Miller
(b) The Princess Casamassima
(c) The Bostonians
(d) Portrait of a Lady

5. Who was Mr. Webster?
(a) a servant at the Royal Hospital
(b) the MP, friend of Lady Wolseley and foe to Henry
(c) the cook at the Royal Hospital
(d) Lady Wolseley's nephew

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

2. What was one of the photographs Henry looked at at the beginning of Chapter 7?

3. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?

4. What did William want to be at first?

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

(see the answer key)

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