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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) his wife
(d) John

2. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?
(a) He found it a weariness to flesh and spirit alike.
(b) He loved the distraction of the many balls.
(c) He felt at home and wished he too were nobility.
(d) He was impressed by the pomp and grandeur of it.

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

4. Where did Henry's story appear in print?
(a) the English Illustrated Magazine
(b) the Irish Illustrated Magazine
(c) as a published book in London
(d) the New England Quarterly

5. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(b) Mrs. Charles Kingsley
(c) her cousin Minny
(d) Katherine Loring

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?

3. How did the audience like Henry's play?

4. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?

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

(see the answer key)

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