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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. How did Henry treat the actors in his play?
(a) He criticized their acting ability.
(b) He ignored them.
(c) He spoiled them with hampers of food.
(d) He complemented their acting ability constantly.

2. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) He thought it was boring.
(b) He thought it was feeble and vulgar.
(c) He thought it was too intellectual.
(d) He thought it was clever and amusing.

3. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) a boy and his younger sister
(b) three young sisters
(c) two young brothers
(d) two girls and their younger brother

4. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?
(a) a prim English woman
(b) a novelist
(c) a nurse
(d) a clergyman

5. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?
(a) John Addington Symonds
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Yeats
(d) Sturges

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Henry's lost homosexual love?

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

3. Who was Hammond?

4. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?

5. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?

(see the answer key)

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