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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: April 1895.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?
(a) Yeats
(b) Bosie
(c) John
(d) his wife

2. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?
(a) in an old mansion in New York
(b) in the present in New England
(c) in the past in England
(d) in a remote house on the rocks in Newport

3. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?
(a) Oscar Wilde's trial
(b) his friends, Sturges and Gosse
(c) Oscar Wilde's wife and children
(d) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son

4. How did the audience like Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) They were bored with it.
(b) They hated it.
(c) They loved it.
(d) They were shocked by it.

5. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?
(a) Hammond, Littlefield and Philip Smith
(b) Paul, Peter and Eric
(c) Sargent, Gosse and Philip Burne-Jones
(d) Minny, Constance and Hammond

Short Answer Questions

1. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?

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

3. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?

4. Who are the two relatives who appear in Henry's dream?

5. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?

(see the answer key)

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