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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. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of an American family in England
(b) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister
(c) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(d) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations

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

3. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?
(a) Alexander
(b) Gosse
(c) Peter
(d) Paul

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

5. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.
(a) boring
(b) intelligent
(c) sensitive
(d) blank

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Henry treat the actors in his play?

2. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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